Parkview Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection grades are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility received its second most favorable category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area, which is a decent grade. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's second least favorable category is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

The next category we looked at was nursing. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this category. This facility provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.