Parkville Care Center

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this place also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in this category, with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given an impressive long-term care score. In fact, this wound up being its second best category score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. It looks like we may have been missing some information from this nursing home's long-term care metrics, but we were satisfied with the information we found.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Our next category is short-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a B- in this area. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.