Crowne Health Care of Ft Payne

Crowne Health Care of Ft Payne is located in Fort Payne, Alabama. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This nursing home was also given strong grades in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few places fared as well in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.75124 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home was given a favorable nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. Even though this was not quite as impressive as many of its other category grades, this remains one of the more favorable scores for that area. Our short-term care grades are presumably more critical for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 44.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.