Accura Healthcare of Cresco

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In addition, this nursing home received a very good inspection report this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a B. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The final category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home received a C for the area. In our long-term care grade, we look at the volume of care provided by a facility, as well as a few qualitative measures. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.290596 percent of its residents. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.