Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't fare terribly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a C in that area, which wound up being among its higher scores. In forming these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This nursing home wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our long-term care category. It received a lowly F in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 20.000002 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

The last area we scored is nursing, in which this nursing home received a poor grade in this category as well. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. There are several data points within this category. Most of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular facility averaged just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.