Crowne Health Care of Montgomery

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.15612 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we looked at was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Of course, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. Our short-term care scores are arguably most important for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.