Creekside Rehabilitation and Nursing

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given impressive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in this area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a C in this category. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This grade was very detrimental to this facility's overall grade. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to patients. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received large government fines recently of over $50,000. This generally signifies that government inspectors grew tired after several years of bad health inspections.