Evergreen Crossing and the Lofts

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B- in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this nursing home. In our short-term care rating, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility excelled in the category of nursing, where it earned an D. The nursing rating includes quite a few datapoints, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. You should be especially cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This typically indicates that a facility's bad track record spanned more than one year.

The last category we rated is long-term care, where this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 90.55944 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.