Beverly Park Place Health and Rehab

To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this nursing home's better category grades came in the area of short-term care. This wound up being its second most respectable category. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The important question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home's weakest category was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.741 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.