Parkview Care Center

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second highest area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it received a C. In our short-term care category, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Our nursing grade is based on numerous datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most facilities. Finally, nursing ratings also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last category we analyzed is long-term care, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.14893 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.