The Pines Healthcare Center

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it fared pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5 percent of its patients returning home.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home's received a low-end long-term care grade where it received an F. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.01961 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home really didn't perform well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. There are several subcategories within this category. Most of these criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is well below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.