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Cedar Falls Health Care Center

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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Cedar Falls Health Care Center's website

1728 West Eighth Street,
Cedar Falls IA 50613

(319) 277-2437

64.51% estimated occupancy 1

Note: Cedar Falls Health Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Cedar Falls Health Care Center is a facility located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which has 42,031 people. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this facility, as it received an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Cedar Falls. The city has just three other nursing homes. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category scores gave us anything positive to point out. Its best category was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

Among this nursing home's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection score. Typically, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For places with poor inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The next category we scored was long-term care. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 61.490685 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18May 23

Cedar Falls Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 6.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 3.87% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a fall leading to serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 3.28% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 17.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 19.26% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 4.67% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 93.67% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 17.07% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 16.9% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Some believe that mobility is critical to patients health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 1.48 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Cedar Falls Health Care Center, 16.9 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Scores for Cedar Falls, IA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

Looking for more options? Cedar Falls, Iowa has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mercyone Cedar Falls Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.56 miles away515 College Street Cedar Falls Iowa 50613Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 268-3000
  • Allen HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.56 miles away1825 Logan Avenue Waterloo Iowa 50703Voluntary non-profit - Private(319) 235-3941
  • Mercyone Waterloo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.71 miles away3421 West Ninth Street Waterloo Iowa 50702Voluntary non-profit - Church(319) 272-8000
  • Waverly Health CenterCritical Access Hospitals 13.31 miles away312 9th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Government - Local(319) 352-4120
  • Grundy County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.25 miles away201 East J Avenue Grundy Center Iowa 50638Voluntary non-profit - Other(319) 824-5421

Nearby Dialysis

  • Cedar Valley Dialysis Center5.96 miles away1661 W. Ridgeway Waterloo Iowa 50701CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (319) 226-6425
  • Black Hawk Dialysis7.71 miles away3421 W 9th St Waterloo Iowa 50702Dialysis Stations: 18 (319) 272-8700
  • Cedar Valley Waverly Dialysis13.35 miles away220 10th Street Sw Waverly Iowa 50677Dialysis Stations: 16 (319) 226-6425