Azria Health Park Place

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We awarded this facility a D in the area of long-term care, leaving this as the nursing home's weakest category grade. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 88.39779 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.