Parkview Home

Parkview Home is a small government-owned facility located in Belview, Minnesota. It looks like this nursing home is among the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. A score in this range requires top-notch scores across the board. We could not find many negative things to say about this place. Its scores are as good as they get. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next section.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its fine profile, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care score, with a score of A. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of providing well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep 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 number.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. There are a variety of datapoints included in this category. Most of the factors reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the more impressive totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these statistics. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In our final area, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its short-term care rating. This completed an elite profile. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more meaningful for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this place's favorable score in this area is that it offers more care from registered nurses than a typical facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home rather than remaining at the facility permanently.