The Crescent

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The second most favorable category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. There are a host of subcategories included in this category. Many of the subcategories reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility was given an abysmal grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.9021 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.