Crane Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with too many deficiencies flagged. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second most respectable score is short-term care, but even there it earned just a D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor score. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is considered to be a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Based on its poor grade in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this nursing home provides far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Our third category we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. Our nursing rating includes many factors, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This place offered only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores hurt this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.