Accel at Crystal Park

We would like to note that this facility's short-term care score outpaced its overall score. This nursing home earned a B+ in this area, which is a strong grade. Our short-term care grades are probably most meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to our next category, we gave this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.