Pruitthealth - Crestwood

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

Another one of this nursing home's quality category scores came in the category of short-term care. We awarded them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are with residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Georgia in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The final area we graded was this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in long-term care. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's volume of nursing care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.557526 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.