The Park in Plano

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than its overall score. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is typically a solid assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

We also gave this facility a middle of the road grade in the category of long-term care, with a grade of B-. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.91304 percent of its residents. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.54 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was not quite as favorable than its other scores in this category.

The last category we scored was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a rock bottom grade. This is clearly a major concern. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this category. With only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.