Park Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 78.77095 percent of its patients against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received its third highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's worst area was nursing, which is the final area we analyzed. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. There are several data points included in this category. Many of the subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.