15 Craigside

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing grades are primarily associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 5.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable measures of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

This facility also was superb in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This facility provided more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a facility in this category. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the next area, this facility also excelled in the long-term care category. We gave it a grade of A in this category. This finalized truly elite profile. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to offering elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.