Cedar Crest Manor

To pair with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home also was given a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.65272 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. When calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a poor grade. This is certainly a major disappointment. Our short-term care scores are likely more critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.5 percent of its patients returning home.