Symphony of Crestwood

Neither this nursing home's overall score nor its category grades gave us many positives to write about. Its best area was inspections, but even here we gave it just a D. This is still a very poor score. Inspection ratings weigh many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is typically a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This number is quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. As you might expect, we found that this place provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a poor score in this area as well. It received an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated just 22.073578 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.