Creekside Village

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also awarded this facility a favorable score in short-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our higher grades. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an impressive grade of D. Nursing grades are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our final category, we gave this facility a grade of D in the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category grade. Of course, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.53271 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable total. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.