Adams Parc

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other achievements is its superb long-term care grade. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This nursing home fared well enough in these metrics to earn a quality grade in this area.

This nursing home's next highest area ended up being short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are probably more important for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

The last category we looked at was nursing, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. This really is one of the couple of weak points of a quality report card. The nursing score weighs a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular place averaged a meager 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.