Crown Pointe Estates

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Our nursing rating weighs a variety of subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

Contributing to its fine resume, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. With our short-term care grade, we seek to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this facility received a high-end score of A- in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.89922 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the last category we assessed, this facility earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we gave it a B for that category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. It doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it was difficult to really assess the place in terms of this category.