Crestpark Wynne

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it was given an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category score. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. There are several datapoints included in this grade. Most of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a patient even once per day.

The final area we graded is short-term care. This facility was given a B- for this area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.