The Community at Franklin Park

This nursing home's best category grade came in our short-term care category. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually outperformed many nursing homes in this area. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more often.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down deficiency data for this facility. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area. Despite some solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 86.95652 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.