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 short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 81.17647 percent of its patients, which is a bit below what we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we rated was nursing, in which this facility was given a C. This was this nursing home's worst category. This is still not a terrible score. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Finally, nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.