Ackert Park Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home's nursing grade was more impressive than its overall grade. With a strong performance in this area, it received a quality score in that category with a B. The nursing grade assesses several datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more often.

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility's inspection grade also was quite a bit better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The next area we looked at is long-term care, ended up being this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 88.35616 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly lower than average. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.