Crossroads Care Center of Weyauwega

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is generally a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.2 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we rated was long-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.72611 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.