Cedar Crossings

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. It does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home was given an extremely favorable long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that category, rounding out one of our more impressive report cards. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.