Park Place Health and Wellness Center

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, 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 nursing homes with 63.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. There are numerous subcategories included in this grade. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the better figures in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these figures. On top of providing high levels of care, this facility also performed well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to prevent bed sores.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a C. Even though this is its worst category rating, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Although we determined this facility had a favorable amount of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat lower than we expected. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 70.83333 percent of its residents. This is a statistic we'd love to see this facility bring up. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.