Adams Parc

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also received a high-end long-term care score. We gave them an elite grade of A- in this category. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 71.42857 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility was given a strong short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we assessed is nursing, which proved to be a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of D for our nursing category, rendering this the nursing home's least impressive category grade. We would nevertheless recommend that you consider all of a facility's category grades. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing ratings. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.