Crestfield Rehabilitation Center & Fenwood Manor

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category grade. In this category, we awarded this facility an A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This facility received an above average long-term care grade, with a grade of B in the category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home was given a strong nursing rating. This nursing home didn't end up having any real weak links. There are several factors included in this category. Many of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.