The Pointe Nursing & Rehab Center

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a fairly impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Among this facility's litany of terrible scores was its F in the area of long-term care. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated only 69.548874 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. The nursing grade analyzes several factors, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home did not perform well in this area either. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.