Center at Park West

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. It doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without complete deficiency data for this nursing home, it ended up being a challenge to fully evaluate it in 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+. There are numerous factors included in this category. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of C. This turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.