Park Terrace Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We were not able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without complete information regarding deficiencies, it was difficult to fully grade this facility in the area of inspections.

An additional strength of this nursing home is its favorable score in long-term care. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with a grade of A-. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 90.896736 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we looked at is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a C. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

The last area we graded is nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D in our nursing category, leaving this as the nursing home's worst area. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing rating substantially.