Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Featuring an overall rating of B. After sizing up the other alternatives in Fort Wayne, this seems to be a better option than the majority of them. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility fared well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an impressive grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is more often than not a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We awarded it an B+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This is one of the few nursing homes with an overall score in this range which received multiple category grades this high. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors 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 the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
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Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes several components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients more frequently.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of D in long-term care, making this the facility's weakest grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.67532 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.36% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who have sustained a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.69% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric can be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 22.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 14.48% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 91.03% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.46% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.91% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.53 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.43 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ashton Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center, 73.74% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Fort Wayne, IN
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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