Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Parker City, Indiana, a city with 2,845 people. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the country. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is a wonderful choice for just about anybody. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.
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Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an A+ for its long-term care grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.55357 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home also excelled in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category. This rounded out a very impressive report card. There are numerous subcategories included in this grade. Many of these subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient more often.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 3.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 6.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 0.9% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which have experienced UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 19.7% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for treating several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 17.01% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 6.53% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 99.78% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 11.4% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and eating. Some experts believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 1.74% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 1.74% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 16.69% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Parker Health Care & Rehabilitation Center, 90.14% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Indiana University Health Ball Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.22 miles away2401 University Ave Muncie Indiana 47303Voluntary non-profit - Private(765) 747-3111
- St Vincent Randolph Hospital IncCritical Access Hospitals 12.23 miles away473 E Greenville Ave Winchester Indiana 47394Voluntary non-profit - Private(765) 584-0004
- Henry County Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.09 miles away1000 N 16th St New Castle Indiana 47362Government - Local(765) 521-0890
Nearby Dialysis
- Dsi - North Granville Dialysis Clinic9.41 miles away3001 North Granville Ave. Muncie Indiana 47303Dialysis Stations: 16 (765) 288-3740
- Davita - Muncie9.51 miles away820 E Mcgalliard Muncie Indiana 47303Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 282-1266
- Dsi - North Muncie11.37 miles away2705 W North Street Muncie Indiana 47303CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (765) 747-3020
- Fmc - Winchester In11.63 miles away409 Greenville Avenue, Ste 500 Winchester Indiana 47394Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 584-8000
- Fmc - Muncie Dialysis12.21 miles away4021 West Kilgore Ave. Muncie Indiana 47304CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (765) 284-3049
- Fmc New Castle19.82 miles away101 Emerson Avenue New Castle Indiana 47362Dialysis Stations: 21 (765) 521-0938