Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given strong scores in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most elite grades in that area with a score of A-. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.23529 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable nursing rating. While this was not quite as impressive as a few of its other category grades, this is still not a major area of concern. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.