Apple Creek Health and Rehab
1570 W Centerton Blvd, Centerton AR 72719 · (479) 224-4817 · 90.17% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Centerton, Arkansas, Apple Creek Health and Rehab is the sole nursing home located in the area. This is a fine facility. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good grade. We ranked this facility as one of the top 50 nursing homes in Arkansas. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 114 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the well above average quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.26 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also received top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a decent score in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 52 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable nursing grade. Although this isn't nearly as elite as some of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also assessed a few nursing quality-based metrics and this place actually excelled in some of these. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Apple Creek Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better