Crystal Care Center of Portsmouth

One of the reasons this proved to be a decent facility is it earned a favorable inspection score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Building on this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of C in this category. Nursing grades are mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, while this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a C. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we looked at was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that area. This is a fair grade in this category. Our long-term care grades are crucial for individuals seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 58.904106 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.