Somerset Senior Living at Crossett

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of B+ for long-term care. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Without this category, its profile would have been even worse. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Shockingly, this nursing home actually earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Few nursing homes that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility ended up receiving a a terrible score in our short-term care area. It received an F in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we graded was nursing. We gave it an F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Our nursing rating assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing grades. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.