Park Health Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B in that area, which happens to be one of our better. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.2647 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded just a D in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst category. It received a lowly F in this category, which is certainly very disappointing. There are a variety of subcategories included in this grade. Most of these criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.