Park View Care Center

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave it an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a B in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.81309 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this statistic.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home really didn't perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is this nursing home's weakest category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Based on its score in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 32.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.