Park Terrace Health Campus

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this facility also performed well in our short-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also was dominant in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.81768 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we rated was nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when their worst score still is superior to most facilities. Nursing ratings are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.