Ashton Parke Care Center

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care rating is one of its best features. The facility received a C in this area. Long-term care grades are meaningful for patients looking for personal care. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.108696 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. In computing our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The next area we looked at was short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.