Crestpark Stuttgart

This facility surprisingly received a good score in the category of short-term care. We gave it a B for that category, which is a solid score. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer 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 highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 59.8 percent of its residents returning home.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. According to CMS records, this place averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing grades, we add more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of training. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility received mediocre inspections in recent years. We awarded them a C in this area. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This place had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility dodged the more significant categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

Switching gears to our next area, we gave this facility a D in long-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Long-term care grades in this range 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. This facility's vaccination data were not as strong as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 80.66038 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement in this area next year. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.