Park Health Center

With an address in Saint Clairsville, Ohio, Park Health Center is one of four available facilities in the area. Featuring an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Saint Clairsville, which admittedly is admittedly a little below average nationally. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an C. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We especially like to look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these issues.

This facilities next most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.9011 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.64 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Moving on to the next category, this facility was awarded a grade of C in short-term care, which is generally an acceptable grade. Our short-term care grades are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 39.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.