Park Forest Care Center

This nursing home's best category grade came in nursing. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Our nursing rating consists of many factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident more often.

This facility's inspection score exceeded its overall score as well. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a positive grade in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B in this area, which turns out to be one of our better grades. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we looked at was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is not a bad grade in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.166664 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable datapoint. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.