Parkview Haven Nursing Home
P O Box 667, 1203 4th Street, Deshler NE 68340 · (402) 365-7237 · 54.08% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Parkview Haven Nursing Home is a senior living facility located in Deshler, Nebraska, a city with 992 people. We awarded this nursing home an A overall grade, ranking it in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. Headlining this nursing home's remarkable report card is its long-term care grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in long-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.59 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This is based on the place's inspection reports. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is more than what is offered by most places. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our final area, this nursing home received a respectable short-term care score. Although this isn't nearly as impressive as some of its other category grades, this is truly not a terrible score. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 28.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Parkview Haven Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better