Parkway Place

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled at short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the last area, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable long-term care rating. We awarded it a grade of A- in that category, giving this facility straight A's. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.