Hyde Park Healthcare Center

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Incredibly, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for its long-term care grade, which really isn't too bad of a score. In calculating our long-term care grades, we look at the personal care offered to the nursing home's residents. We were unable to find a few datapoints in determining this nursing home's long-term care rating, so this score might not be as accurate as our other category scores.

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most meaningful for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility really did not perform very well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is well below the national average. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.