Symphony of Crown Point

We gave this facility an A in the short-term care category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is typically a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Inspection ratings are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Turning to the last area, this facility did not fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this was this facility's poorest category. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.297295 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.