Hudson Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

This facility's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is a much better grade than the nursing home's overall grade. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it a B in this area, which happens to be one of our better. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.49246 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. There are a host of subcategories included in this category. Most of the criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. This is certainly a significant concern. Our short-term care grades are vital for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score this poor in this area, we were not surprised to find that this facility was below average in many staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.