Parkview Manor Care Center

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent government inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

The third area we assessed was short-term care. Adding to its strong profile, this facility also performed well in that category. In fact, we gave it a of A- for the category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The last area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given an impressive long-term care score in our assessment, with a B-. While this wasn't quite as dominant as a few of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade in this area. Long-term care scores are based in part on the facility's volume of care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.70115 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.