Community Parkview Health and Living

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.05213 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing rating is based on a host of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This place provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most other nursing homes. Lastly, although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously concerning. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.