Healthcare Center at the Forum at Park Lane

Healthcare Center at the Forum at Park Lane is an average-sized facility located in Dallas, Texas. We awarded this facility a first-rate overall grade of A. As a matter of fact, this is actually among the ten highest graded nursing homes in the city. Even in a city of 35 nursing homes, this nursing home would be a great option. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so we will need to make sure it keeps up its high scores under new ownership.

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Texas in this area with 61.8 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones 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. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provided 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the highest totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home received a very good nursing score in our assessment, with a B. Although this wasn't quite as good as a few of its other category grades, this remains one of our more impressive grades for this area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 92.55319 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.