Parklands Care Center is a senior living facility in Gainesville, Florida, which has 197,025 people. With a terrible overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. Keep in mind that Gainesville received a city grade of B-, so should consider other options in the city as well. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next section.
Parklands Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Note: Parklands Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. The nursing rating consists of quite a few factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also didn't rate terribly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which happens to be another one of its more favorable scores. In our long-term care score, we analyze the sheer quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as some quality metrics. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Given its weak grade in this area, we were not stunned to learn this nursing home provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.
Facility Inspections
In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. When a place has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Parklands Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Parklands Care Center, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Parklands Care Center, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients who experienced falls resulting in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Parklands Care Center, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Parklands Care Center, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Parklands Care Center, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Parklands Care Center, 2.33% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Parklands Care Center, 94.94% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Parklands Care Center, 13.07% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Parklands Care Center, 16.78% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Parklands Care Center, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Parklands Care Center, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Parklands Care Center, 9.16 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Parklands Care Center, 78.49% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Gainesville, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Gainesville, Florida has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Uf Health Shands HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.47 miles away1600 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32610Voluntary non-profit - Private(352) 265-8000
- North Florida Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.78 miles away6500 Newberry Rd Gainesville Florida 32605Proprietary(352) 333-4100
- Regional General Hospital WillistonAcute Care Hospitals 19.01 miles away125 Sw 7th St Williston Florida 32696Proprietary(352) 528-2801
Nearby Dialysis
- Shands Hospital - Pediatric Dialysis0.55 miles away1600 Sw Archer Road Gainesville Florida 32610Dialysis Stations: 5 (352) 265-0265
- Shands at Univ of Fl Outpatient Dialysis1.49 miles away2409 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32608Dialysis Stations: 26 (352) 265-6890
- Bma - Gainesville East2.51 miles away1961 N. Main St Gainesville Florida 32609Dialysis Stations: 19 (352) 375-0223
- Gainesville Home Dialysis3.87 miles away4960 W Newberry Rd #280 Gainesville Florida 32607Dialysis Stations: 3 (352) 378-4960
- Gainesville Newberry Dialysis4.83 miles away1177 Nw 64th Terrace Gainesville Florida 32605Dialysis Stations: 18 (352) 332-0679
- Bma - Gainesville5.98 miles away1775 Nw 80th Blvd Gainesville Florida 32606CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (352) 332-8998
- Dci University of Florida Home Program6.62 miles away3750 Nw 83rd St Gainesville Florida 32606Dialysis Stations: 7 (352) 377-6790
- Dci University of Florida6.68 miles away3850 Nw 83rd Street Ste 101 Gainesville Florida 32606CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (352) 337-6021