Cedar Ridge Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This is far more impressive than its overall rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home also was awarded a positive short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 64.90385 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is several points below what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.