Crossroads Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. The nursing category is based on several components, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to another of this facility's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections proved to be one of its best grades. In that category, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The next area we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility a decent grade in this area, with a grade of B-. Although this isn't as strong as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 89.0625 percent of its residents. This is several points lower than what we expected. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.