Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation Center

Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Port Angeles, Washington. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in our short-term care category, where it received a grade of A-. With our short-term care score, we attempt to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Washington in this area with 59.6 percent of its residents returning home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. The nursing score consists of several datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection grade where it received an F. This typically means we found some red flags on its inspections. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years of over $50,000. This often signifies that inspectors grew tired after several years of failed health inspections.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated just 88.764046 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.