Crown Care Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it did receive a very good score in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's second highest category turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was awarded a C. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.03226 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a very good score. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its poor score in this area, we were not shocked to discover this facility offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next category we graded was nursing, where this nursing home received a very poor score here also. We gave it an F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.