Crestwood Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being challenging to really grade it in the area of inspections.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We analyzed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's next highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are vital for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.