Crestwood Manor - 104

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another quality feature of this nursing home is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received a strong nursing score this year, with a grade of B. While this is not quite as dominant as many of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive scores in that area. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.