The Crescent

Although we gave this facility a horrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care grade and that actually wound up as its next most respectable category. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible score in our long-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 98.42519 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The next category we rated was nursing, in which this nursing home was given a very poor score here also. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In computing our nursing ratings, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.