Park Manor of South Belt

We want to point out that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our short-term care scores are presumably most important for patients needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Moving on to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of D. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to the fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category. This is the facility's weakest category score. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.354836 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.