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Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare's website

725 North Second Street,
Cherokee IA 51012

(712) 225-2561

83.4% estimated occupancy 1

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare is a facility located in Cherokee, Iowa, a city with a population of 6,642 people. This nursing home received an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a lower end grade. Keep in mind that Cherokee received a city grade of B-, so should consider some other options in the city as well. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection grade. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Lymphedema Care

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

While we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. Our inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

This nursing home's next most favorable category is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The critical question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. There are many subcategories within this grade. Most of these criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The last category we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 89.393936 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 9.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that developed pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 6.82% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 2.38% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 19.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 8.65% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 89.7% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 6.45% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Some believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 5.59% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 5.59% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 21.96% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-plus

In Careage Hills Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 100% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Cherokee Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.31 miles away300 Sioux Valley Drive Cherokee Iowa 51012Voluntary non-profit - Private(712) 225-5101
  • Mental Health InstitutePsychiatric 1.01 miles away1251 North Cedar Loop Cherokee Iowa 51012Government - State(712) 225-2594
  • Buena Vista Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 18.43 miles away1525 West 5th Street Storm Lake Iowa 50588Government - Local(712) 732-4030

Nearby Dialysis

  • Renal Center of Storm Lake, LLC19.14 miles away1426 N Lake Ave Storm Lake Iowa 50588Dialysis Stations: 16 (712) 732-6900

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=165428