Parkwood Place Healthcare Center

With an address in Lufkin, Texas, Parkwood Place Healthcare Center is one of six available nursing homes there. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires solid scores in most areas. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's profile is is its long-term care grade. We discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After looking at the impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

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. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. There are a number of criteria within this category. Many of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very impressive statistic which typically leads to better quality care. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest category is short-term care, which is the last area we scored. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. We wanted to draw your attention to this potential weakness, however, you shouldn't dwell on one bad area either. Short-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the staffing figures we assessed. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 34.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.