Crossroads Care Center of Sun Prairie

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This grade is much more impressive than the place's overall grade. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this subcategory. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

We awarded this nursing home just a D for our short-term care grade. This is not an impressive grade. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.