Homewood at Crumland Farms

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility received an A+ for short-term care. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a of A- in the area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.61745 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category we graded, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A report card. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.