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 0.5 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.

This nursing home also performed favorably in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable percentage. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category of inspections, this facility did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This dragged this nursing home's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Lastly, we also want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years of over $50,000. This often means that CMS inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of failed health inspections.