Crescent Cities Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care score. We awarded it a respectable grade of B in this category. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an C. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be indicators 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.

This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently in excess of $50,000. This often indicates that CMS inspectors became fed up after several years of bad government inspections.

The next area we rated is long-term care. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in that area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 61.792454 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.