Community Care Center of Crockett

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this place a grade of A+ for the area of inspections. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the area of short-term care. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B+. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 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 actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.