Park Crescent Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center

Park Crescent Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is a large facility located in East Orange, New Jersey. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. As a matter of fact, this is the number one rated nursing home in the city. We also gave this facility strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.65398 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.39 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. Adding to its strong profile, this facility also excelled in that area. In fact, we gave it a of A- in that area. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It performed better than most nursing homes in the nation in this area with 55 percent of its patients returning home.

In our final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing rating. This wrapped up an elite profile. Nursing ratings are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.