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 really excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.04762 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Finally, we looked at this nursing home's inspection grade This was not one of this nursing home's better areas. We gave it a C in this category. This isn't a horrible grade in this category. It simply wasn't as strong as some of this facility's other category grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This place had 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you that it avoided the more significant classes of deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.