Green Park Senior Living Community

Green Park Senior Living Community is a large nursing home in Saint Louis, Missouri. Our grading scheme was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall rating of F. In our grading scheme, this is ranked as one of the bottom 10 rated facilities in Saint Louis. In a city with countless other nursing homes, you should be able to find an alternative. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This tells you that this facility dodged the more ominous categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We were also stunned to learn that this facility received a somewhat respectable short-term care rating in our assessment. We awarded it a C in this area. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility and found that this nursing home performed better here. In fact, this nursing home performed better than most nursing homes in the nation in this area with 49.5 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This place was subpar in two of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are typically decent indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, where this facility was given a very poor score in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 89.84772 percent of its residents. This is significantly below what we expected. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also disappointing. We found that this place had 2.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.