Burbank Parke Care Center

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack grade in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In calculating our long-term care scores, we assess the personal care received by a facility's patients. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.24812 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's second lowest score is short-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a well below average score. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility was well below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. The nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we looked at was nursing, which was this nursing home's weakest area. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is certainly very concerning. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per patient, this facility had really bad scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents having falls which led to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.