Crestwood Ridge Skilled Nursing and Rehab

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Crestwood Ridge Skilled Nursing and Rehab is one of just three available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of B, this appears to be a good facility. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Hillsboro. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for the area of inspections. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. It performed as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 57.6 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents ever return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our long-term care category, rendering this its weakest category grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 94.155846 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.