Crestwood Nursing Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we could find for this facility. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility also didn't fare terribly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C for that area, which happens to be another one of its better grades. In crafting our long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.24138 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. Our nursing grade weighs quite a few components, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This facility did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it a grade of just just D in this category. Inspection grades relate to a facility's inspection reports. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. You should be more cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 9 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.