Crest View Care Center

Crest View Care Center is a senior living facility located in Chadron, Nebraska. This city has a population of 7,365 people. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our ratings, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.

On top of having a decent overall rating, we also wanted to point out that this place received favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in this area, with a B+. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few components, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this facility was awarded strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better scores in this area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care ratings are likely more important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. It performed better than most facilities in the nation with 51.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area. In spite of a few decent scores in other areas, this score is still concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 98.039215 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.