Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of D. A score of this caliber typically indicates a few red flags. Based on our analysis, this place likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive nursing rating. You can scroll down to learn more about nursing and other category scores
Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
While we didn't give this facility a good overall grade, we did give it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a B+. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our better grades. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's third highest score is long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 58.808933 percent of its patients. This is several points lower than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Facility Inspections
The last category we looked at was inspections. This facility did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we gave it an F here. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home had 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This generally suggests that a facility's poor track record spanned several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 6.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 2.05% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 19.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used for treating several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 18.54% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 2.48% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 91.39% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 16.21% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 15.75% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 1.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 15.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 11.2 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Parkway Health & Rehabilitation Center, 71.52% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.62 miles away1153 Centre Street Jamaica Plain Massachusetts 02130Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 983-7000
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - NeedhamAcute Care Hospitals 3.37 miles away148 Chestnut Street Needham Heights Massachusetts 02494Voluntary non-profit - Private(781) 453-3002
- St Elizabeth's Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.97 miles away736 Cambridge Street Brighton Massachusetts 02135Proprietary(617) 789-3000
- Brigham and Women's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.04 miles away75 Francis Street Boston Massachusetts 02115Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 732-5500
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton IncAcute Care Hospitals 5.18 miles away199 Reedsdale Road Milton Massachusetts 02186Government - Federal(617) 696-4600
- Newton-Wellesley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.2 miles away2014 Washington Street Newton Lower Falls Massachusetts 02462Voluntary non-profit - Other(617) 243-6000
- Boston Children's HospitalChildrens 5.22 miles away300 Longwood Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115Voluntary non-profit - Private(617) 735-6000
- Carney HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.26 miles away2100 Dorchester Avenue Dorchester Center Massachusetts 02124Proprietary(617) 506-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci Brigham/Faulkner3.48 miles awayDci Brigham/Faulkner 1153 Centre Street, Belkin House Jamaica Plain Massachusetts 02130CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 983-4470
- Wellesley Dialysis4.45 miles away195 Worcester Street Lower Level Wellesley Hills Massachusetts 02481Dialysis Stations: 18 (781) 431-1414
- Davita Brookline Dialysis4.51 miles away322 Washington Street Brookline Massachusetts 02445CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (617) 734-7794
- Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston4.6 miles awayDialysis Unit - Ccp 7 736 Cambridge Street Brighton Massachusetts 02135Dialysis Stations: 17 (617) 789-2592
- Westwood Dialysis Center (Bma Westwood)4.74 miles away90 Glacier Drive Westwood Massachusetts 02090CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (781) 326-9985
- Mary Eliza Mahoney Dialysis Center (Bma of Massachusetts)5.13 miles away416 Warren Street Roxbury Massachusetts 02119CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (617) 445-9989
- Boston Dialysis Center (Bma Boston)5.27 miles away2100 Dorchester Avenue 1 South Dorchester Center Massachusetts 02124CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 298-2475
- Kidney Center5.73 miles away888 Commonwealth Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02215CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (617) 739-3000