Symphony of Crestwood

Symphony of Crestwood is a very-large nursing home located in Midlothian, Illinois. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. Unfortunately, the city grade for Midlothian is not too much better. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that area with an A-. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This facility received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also didn't rate too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that category, which ended up being among its more favorable scores. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 50.5 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing scores are largely tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided only 2.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this measure. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

The last category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility received a rock bottom score in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 33.83356 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly lower than average. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.82 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not as bad due to it having more complex patients. This is its best feature in this category