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.

This nursing home also received high marks in the category of short-term care, with a superb grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. The nursing rating consists of a handful of datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Turning to the last area, this facility did not perform very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is this facility's weakest area. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.36363 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable statistic. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.