Acacia Park Nursing & Rehab Center

This nursing home earned favorable marks in the area of long-term care this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This ended up being the nursing home's best grade and helped its profile quite a bit. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.557526 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an B+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing grade weighs a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our final area, we gave this facility a D for our short-term care category. This was the facility's weakest category rating. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it offers less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.