Crestview Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 50.54945 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next category, this facility also earned a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. In our short-term care category, we try to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next area we scored was nursing, in which this facility received a B-. Even though this ended up being its least impressive category score, this is still not a terrible score. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this nursing home did not rank highly in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this nursing home fared better than average.