The Community at Franklin Park

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than the place's overall grade. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B-. The nursing rating weighs a handful of datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facilities third best area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this area. With our short-term care score, we seek to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility did not perform well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 90.54054 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points lower than the national average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.