Park Village Health Care Center

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this facility a score of A for our short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is considered to be a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This facility's third highest area is long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In computing these long-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.283264 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable statistic. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we rated is this facility's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- for our nursing category. The nursing grade weighs many data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning residents even once per day.