Cedar Creek Health Campus is a small nursing home located in Lowell, Indiana. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of the best ratings we offer. A score of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. Based on our assessment, this place is simply as good as it gets. The best part of this nursing home's impressive profile was its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Cedar Creek Health Campus
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Adult Day Care
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, it also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its first-rate resume, this facility also was given a superb short-term care grade, with a score of A. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing score includes many datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident even once per day.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated ended up being this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for our long-term care category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cedar Creek Health Campus Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 5.43% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 2.7% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Closer supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 9.04% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 12.43% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 0.56% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 98.53% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 4.24% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and eating. Some experts argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 9.13% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 9.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 9.58% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 79.21% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
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