Focused Care at Crane

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that have too many severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care score, which happens to be one of its more favorable category scores. Our short-term care scores are likely most critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last category we scored is nursing, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.