Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant scores, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A- in that category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.597595 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next area we scored is nursing, where this facility was given a grade of B-. This actually is this nursing home's least impressive category. This is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our nursing score consists of quite a few components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.