Parklands Care Center

This nursing home earned an elite long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A+ in this area, which really bumped up its overall score. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home didn't perform very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this was its poorest category grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home offers less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its residents returning home.