Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Tucson, Arizona. This city is among the largest metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 880,383 people. This nursing home turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a very elite grade. In fact, this turned out to be better than most of the facilities in Tucson, which boasts a decent selection of facilities. This place also received consistently good grades in all four of the major categories. More information about these categories is available below.
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Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Lymphedema Care
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also would like to point out the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of A. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.76923 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its strong assessment, this facility also received a strong short-term care grade, with a score of A-. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the last category, this facility was given an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, completing one of our finer report cards. The nursing rating considers many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 8.99% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay patients which have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.4% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients which had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.74% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 74.57% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.93% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.66% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.66 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.86 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Park Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Center, 75.23% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Tucson, AZ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Tucson South Dialysis (Dva)4.73 miles away3662 S 16th Ave Tucson Arizona 85713CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (520) 882-9665