Park Central Care and Rehabilitation Center

Park Central Care and Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Fremont, California. This city has a population of 214,112 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the highest-rated nursing homes we found. It received one of the highest scores we offer. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its long-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.52153 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. The last statistic we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS 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.

Turning the page to our next area, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. This is a superb score. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is often a meaningful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were extremely impressed to discover that this place offers its residents significantly more physical therapist hours than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 58.1 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home also performed admirably in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this area. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Our nursing rating includes several factors, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.8 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.