Creekside Care Center

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Incredibly, we awarded this facility a C for its short-term care rating, which isn't a bad grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In determining our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we looked at was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a rock bottom grade here also. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.