Crossroads Rehabilitation & Nursing

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home was given its next highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In the category of long-term care, we focus on the amount of care provided by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 91.404015 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we expected but still a decent figure. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this subcategory.

This nursing home's worst category was short-term care, which is the final area we scored. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With a score of this caliber in this category, we were not shocked to discover this facility was well below average in many staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.