Parkview Manor

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility also was given a positive score in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this category. Short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing score. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Iowa in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning patients at least once a day.

The last category we graded is long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very disappointing. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 70.12195 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.