Cedarcrest Care Center

This facility's best category grade came in the category of health inspections. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was given positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest score. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.039604 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable area came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In forming these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The key is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home really didn't perform very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's weakest area. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.