Cedarwood Plaza

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This score is far better than its overall score. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had positive view of this facility's inspections.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. Short-term care scores are vital for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The last category we scored is long-term care, turned out to be this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in that area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.55014 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.