University Park Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its high-end profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.33252 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's third strongest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to the last category, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this category. This wrapped up a straight A profile. Our nursing rating is based on several data points, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.