Focused Care at Crane

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it actually received a very good score in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better grades. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next most favorable area was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Long-term care grades are used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 96.58703 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our final category, this nursing home really didn't fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. Our nursing score weighs many subcategories, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. To go along with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had really poor marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients experiencing falls leading to major injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.