Parkside

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a favorable grade in long-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which turns out to be one of our better scores. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 80.860214 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a C. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The critical question is whether this also impacted quality of care. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to the fourth category, we awarded this facility a D for the area of nursing. This was the nursing home's weakest category grade. There are a number of subcategories within this area. Most of the data points reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an alarmingly low total. This facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.