The Craig Senior Living is a facility located in Amarillo, Texas. The city has 220,580 people. We awarded this nursing home an B+ overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all facilities in the nation. In our view, this facility looks like a solid choice for quite a few people. Keep reading to find this facility's category grades, which are also strong. It would be hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.
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The Craig Senior Living
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
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Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our short-term care grade. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A-. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. The nursing rating includes many subcategories, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. In this area, we gave this facility a very solid grade of B. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.9798 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Craig Senior Living Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Craig Senior Living, 2.9% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Craig Senior Living, 5.05% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that experienced falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Craig Senior Living, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic can be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Craig Senior Living, 34.02% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Craig Senior Living, 33.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Craig Senior Living, 0.54% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Craig Senior Living, 96.65% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Craig Senior Living, 17.19% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Craig Senior Living, 12.44% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In The Craig Senior Living, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Craig Senior Living, 12.44% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Craig Senior Living, 7.44% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Craig Senior Living, 65.59% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Amarillo, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Dialysis
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