With an address in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace is the lone nursing home located in this city. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel overall rating based on the data we assessed. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this facility. We were surprised to find that this facility actually received one respectable category score in inspections, which you can read more about below.
Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. With our short-term care score, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. The nursing grade consists of several subcategories, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we rated is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. We were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 89.88764 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 3.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 1.71% of Patients had UTIs
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that have experienced UTI's. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term patients which were given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 22.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 20.26% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 90.12% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 14.88% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 16.29% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 16.29 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace, 75.25% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Kings Daughters Medical Center OhioAcute Care Hospitals 11.29 miles away1901 Argonne Road Portsmouth Ohio 45662Voluntary non-profit - Private(740) 991-4000
- Our Lady of Bellefonte HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.64 miles away1000 Saint Christopher Drive Ashland Kentucky 41101Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 833-3600
- King's Daughters' Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.7 miles away2201 Lexington Avenue Ashland Kentucky 41101Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 408-4401
Nearby Dialysis
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- Fmc - Ashland15.18 miles away432 16th Street, Suite A Ashland Kentucky 41101Dialysis Stations: 18 (606) 325-5268
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- Fmc - Greenup15.26 miles away965 Townhill Plaza Greenup Kentucky 41144Dialysis Stations: 13 (606) 473-0410