Park Lane Nursing Home

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an impressive grade of A in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 81.3253 percent of its patients. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a score of B. It outpaced most facilities in this area. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we graded is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent score in this area, with a grade of B-. Although this is not as strong as many of this facility's other scores, it is still not a major area of concern. Our nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, however, the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also baked some quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.