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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's third most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category. In spite of a few acceptable scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to draw your attention to it. In calculating our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this place received suboptimal scores in several of the quality-based metrics we considered in calculating our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this place's patients sustained falls which led to serious injury.