Creekside Care Center

We awarded this facility an impressive grade of A- for our short-term care grade. This score is much more impressive than its overall score. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient even once per day.

This facility's inspection grade also was quite a bit better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The next area we scored is long-term care, is this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that area. This was one of the few weak links on an otherwise strong report card. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 99.40829 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.