Crowley Ridge Care Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. Our inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The second highest category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.23809 percent of its patients. 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 an impressively low figure.

This facility's second worse score is short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Our short-term care ratings are likely most meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to learn this nursing home offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Moving on to the next category, this facility really did not fare very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest category grade. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below average. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.