Center at Park West

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 66.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having access to all of the information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to fully grade this facility in terms of this category.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was among the better figures we found. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.