Judson Park

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more critical for those needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The next area we scored is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility an above average grade of B. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 80.39216 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a bit less than we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.