Crestwood Rehabilitation and Nursing

Crestwood Rehabilitation and Nursing is an average-sized government-owned facility located in Ogden, Utah. This nursing home received an overall grade of D based on the data we looked at. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 10 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores

While we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall score. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

The next highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are presumably more meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 51.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's second worse score is long-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 96.666664 percent of its residents. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less favorable than its vaccination record.

The final area we rated is nursing, which proved to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D in the area of nursing. The nursing score consists of quite a few subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averaged just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this place had poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.