Crossroads Rehabilitation & Nursing

Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second most favorable category turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a C. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.52507 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another concern is the F this facility received in the area of short-term care. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed 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 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home really didn't perform well here either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This facility averaged only 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.