Focused Care at Crane

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider 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 the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's second highest score is short-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a grade of this caliber in this area, we weren't surprised to learn this facility was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 96.183205 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning to the last category, this facility really didn't fare well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. There are many criteria within this grade. Many of these subcategories are tied to nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.