Croasdaile Village

One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also was given a very strong short-term care grade. This actually is this facility's second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its strong profile, this facility also was awarded a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A-. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.612404 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last area we scored was nursing, where this nursing home was given a B. While this wound up being its lowest category grade, this is nevertheless a good rating. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.