Christwood

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many impressive grades, this nursing home received a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.82609 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the third category, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a very impressive profile. We weighed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.