Park Place Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our nursing score includes quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home received strong marks in the area of long-term care. As a result, it was given one of our most impressive scores in that category with a grade of A+. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.30556 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. 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 less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't 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.

The fourth area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility received an A. This topped off a very impressive profile. Few nursing homes earned an A- or better in each of our categories. Short-term care grades are critical for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.