Cedarcrest Care Center

Although this nursing home's overall score is not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is a decent score. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B-. The nursing grade includes quite a few datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

This facility's next highest area was its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home received a B- in the area. In our long-term care assessment, we weigh the volume of services provided by a nursing home, along with a handful of qualitative measures. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 86.87783 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.