Creekside Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In this area, we gave this facility an A-. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its elite short-term care grade. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients more often.

This facility's weakest category is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. We would like to to point out this possible weak link, however, you should not over-emphasize one category either. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 99.51219 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.