Parkside Health Care Center

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A- for this area, which is one of our highest grades. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility earned an excellent nursing score. We gave it an B in that area. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care, in which we awarded it a favorable grade of B. This facility truly does not have any weak spots. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.4709 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.