Cedar Creek Nursing Center

Cedar Creek Nursing Center is a facility located in Norman, Oklahoma. This city has a total of 113,857 people. With a terrible overall grade of F, this nursing home didn't fare well in our assessment. Based on our assessment, this facility is not a fit for any prospective resident. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We were not able to award this facility any respectable grades. We wanted to point out that it received an F for its long-term care grade. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.117645 percent of its residents, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place fared much worse with 2.76 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is nearly twice the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home earned really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is often a signal that we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a facility has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. In our short-term care grade, we strive to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 42.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last area we graded was nursing, where this nursing home was given a poor score here also. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. The nursing grade is based on several data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This place offered only 2.8 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.