The Craig Senior Living

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it earned an A. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Nursing scores are largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Racking up another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The next area we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B. This actually is this nursing home's least impressive category. A facility is doing something right when their lowest score still beats out most nursing homes. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.336784 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.