Cedar Creek Health Campus is a small nursing home located in Lowell, Indiana. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires above average scores in most areas. Based on our assessment, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
Cedar Creek Health Campus
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Adult Day Care
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has 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
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility also earned first-rate health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is long-term care, in which this facility received a C. This actually ended up being this facility's worst area. This is nevertheless not the end of the world. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by a facility's patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.548386 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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, 7.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 21.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 12.89% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many believe this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 91.48% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 15.74% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 15.7% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 15.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 11.29 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cedar Creek Health Campus, 73.78% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Franciscan Health Crown PointAcute Care Hospitals 7.8 miles away1201 S Main St Crown Point Indiana 46307Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 757-6100
- Franciscan Health DyerAcute Care Hospitals 15.7 miles away24 Joliet St Dyer Indiana 46311Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 865-2141
- St Mary Medical Center IncAcute Care Hospitals 17.27 miles away1500 S Lake Park Ave Hobart Indiana 46342Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 942-0551
- Franciscan Health MunsterAcute Care Hospitals 18.24 miles away701 Superior Ave Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 922-4200
- Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.96 miles away901 Macarthur Blvd Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 836-1600
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Crown Point7.25 miles away851 W. Burrell St. Crown Point Indiana 46307CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (219) 662-2648
- Davita - St. John Dialysis10.96 miles away10033 Wicker Ave Saint John Indiana 46373Dialysis Stations: 16 (219) 365-5043
- Davita - Merrillville Dialysis11.59 miles away9223 Taft Street Merrillville Indiana 46410Dialysis Stations: 16 (219) 793-9035
- Fmc - Merrillville Dialysis Center12.74 miles away550 West 84th Drive Merrillville Indiana 46410CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (219) 795-1990
- Home Dialysis Services Merrillville, LLC13.39 miles away200 East 80th Place Suite 2 Merrillville Indiana 46410Dialysis Stations: 1 (219) 472-0379
- Schererville Dialysis Center13.81 miles away1534 Us Highway 41 Schererville Indiana 46375Dialysis Stations: 17 (219) 322-5448
- Fmc - Dyer15.55 miles away2150 Gettler Street, Suite 105 Dyer Indiana 46311Dialysis Stations: 24 (219) 322-3710
- Merrillville North Dialysis Center15.67 miles away6059 Broadway Merrillville Indiana 46410CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (219) 980-1090