Parkland Manor Living Center

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in the area of long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.78049 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility received a B. This actually ended up being this facility's least impressive area. A facility could be doing a lot worse when it's worst grade still rates higher than most nursing homes. With our short-term care category, we seek to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.