Park Place Health and Wellness Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. In our short-term care score, we seek to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents even once per day.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and 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. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home was given an impressive long-term care score in our assessment, with a C. Although this isn't quite as strong as several of its other category grades, this remains a respectable rating in that area. In forming our long-term care scores, we quantify the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 93.548386 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.