Cedar Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

We also awarded this facility an impressive grade in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this area, which turns out to be one of our better scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility was given its third most favorable category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a respectable score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 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.

The next category we assessed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in nursing, leaving this as the facility's worst grade. The nursing rating weighs many factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.