Accel at Crystal Park

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility excelled at short-term care, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Building on its strong performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+ for our nursing rating. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a decent long-term care grade of C. Our long-term care grades are crucial for individuals seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.