Foundation Park Care Center

While this place's overall grade is not a highlight, it actually received a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this category, which is not bad. Inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This facility's next most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was awarded a C. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

This facility's third best area is its long-term care score, where it was awarded a C. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.69419 percent of its residents. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we looked at was nursing, turned out to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.