Accel at Crystal Park

We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in the area of short-term care, where it received an A. This is notably better than the nursing home's overall grade, which was certainly not elite. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This was one of the few weak links in an otherwise impressive profile. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 79.411766 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly less than the national average. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.