Judson Park

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our next category, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care score. This is a dominant grade. Our short-term care grades are arguably more critical for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a very strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our more favorable report cards. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 85.2459 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.