North Village Park

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom scores in our assessment. Perhaps most alarmingly, it received an F for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit alarmed this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 55.95409 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a facility has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care grades are crucial for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.