Crystal Care of Coal Grove

Crystal Care of Coal Grove is a facility located in Ironton, Ohio, a city with a population of 21,635 people. Our scoring system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. Unfortunately, the city grade for Ironton isn't too much better. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to find a better option More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

This facility didn't receive any respectable scores. Its most alarming grade may be its inspection score, where we gave it an F. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 12 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Among this nursing home's several low-end scores was its F in the area of long-term care. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to just 58.064514 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. Finally, we were stunned by the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home fared poorly with 4.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is more than double the national average.

The third category we graded is short-term care, in which this facility was given an F. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 33.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

The next area we rated is nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a very poor grade. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.