Crestwood Center

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.53052 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility was given its next best category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. 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. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we scored is nursing, where this nursing home was given a B-. This was this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a poor grade. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. 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. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider some quality-focused measures. We like to look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care tends to reduce these issues.