CareOne at Parsippany

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

This facility's next highest category was its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. We gave this nursing home an impressive grade of D. Our nursing score includes a handful of factors, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home really didn't fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this was this nursing home's weakest category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.85715 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.