Crandall Nursing Home

On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Not many facilities fared better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.0566 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing grades are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this category. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.