Parkview Memorial Hospital-Ccc

Parkview Memorial Hospital-Ccc is a small hospital-based nursing home located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. With an overall score of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly a phenomenal nursing home. You simply can not do any better than this facility. Headlining this place's remarkable report card is its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We gave them an A+ in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This place excelled in two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical facility. This is certainly a great sign. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 73.3 percent of its patients returning home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. There are a number of datapoints within this area. Many of the datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 7.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This was one of the more impressive totals we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the state in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The last category we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility a decent score in this category, with a B-. Even though this was not on par with many of this nursing home's other grades, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Long-term care grades assess a facility's personal care rather than the skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.