Park Place Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its first-rate performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.586205 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It outpaced most nursing homes in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we rated was nursing. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning patients even once per day.