Park Place Christian Community

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end facility also performed remarkably in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A+. Only a small group of facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 70.8 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records is superb as well. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our next area, this facility was awarded a high-end nursing score. We gave it a grade of A in this area, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With below five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category.