Crawford Manor Healthcare Center

This nursing home's nursing grade was more impressive than its overall grade. With a strong performance in this area, it received a quality score in that category with a B+. There are a number of datapoints within this grade. Most of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Ohio in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving patients even once per day.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we rated is long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.16667 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.