Crystal Care Center of Franklin Furnace

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facilities next best category is short-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a poor grade in this category as well. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely very concerning. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 73.03371 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly below average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.