Cedars Healthcare Center

We gave this nursing home one of our better scores in nursing, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. The nursing score is based on a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was given an impressive score in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this category. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home received its third best category grade in inspections. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a C in this area. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. To our surprise, this place had a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst possible deficiencies. This often indicates that inspectors identified a deficiency which places patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home received a respectable long-term care score of C. In the area of long-term care, we assess the quantity of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 84.14634 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.