Crosbyton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing grades are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. Adding to its dominant profile, this nursing home also performed well in this area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for the category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also performed admirably in the short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in this category. This rounded out a very impressive report card. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.