Crestmont North Nursing Home

With an address in Lakewood, Ohio, Crestmont North Nursing Home is one of just three available nursing homes in this area. This nursing home was given a rock bottom overall grade based on the data we looked at. This nursing home didn't have any redeeming qualities. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Surprisingly, we awarded this facility a C for its short-term care score, which isn't a bad grade. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this metric with 54.7 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this area.

The last area we rated is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is a very solid figure. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.