Pruitthealth - Crestwood

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To add to its strong accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care score. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.326355 percent of its residents, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home Georgia in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents at least once a day.

The next category we scored was short-term care, in which this facility received a B-. This actually was this nursing home's weakest area. This is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In computing these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.