Park Pointe Healthcare & Rehab

While we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which is much better than its overall grade. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. In spite of this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable inspection report.

This facility received its next most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on quality of care. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This facility's second lowest category was long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 97.99197 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received an abysmal score in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. The nursing rating weighs a variety of data points. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.