Cedar Falls Health Care Center

Cedar Falls Health Care Center is a facility in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which has 42,031 people. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not satisfied with this facility's rather poor overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are four other nursing homes in Cedar Falls. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 9 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category J through L deficiencies. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to put patient health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

Sadly, this facility only earned a grade of D for its long-term care rating, which ended up being one of its more favorable category grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.56459 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.99 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place didn't fare quite as well.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade analyzes many factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This place offered a meager 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is an abysmal score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. As you might expect, we learned that this place provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average nursing home. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 35.8 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.