Cross Creek Health Care

With an address in Swanquarter, North Carolina, Cross Creek Health Care is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. This nursing home received a concerning overall grade of D in our grading scheme. This nursing home has very little working in its favor. This nursing home's only redeeming quality is its inspection grade, which you can find more information on below.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent grade in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility's next highest category was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively badly. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a useful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its weak rating in this area, we weren't shocked to learn that this place provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 40.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing rating is based on many datapoints, but the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this metric. This is quite concerning when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a weak nursing score.

The last area we scored was long-term care. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is a very poor score. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 79.57746 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.