University Park Care Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility truly excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Switching gears to our next area, we gave this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's worst category rating. Nevertheless, you should not dwell on a single weak grade. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 96.96202 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.