Cherokee Park Rehabilitation is located in Louisville, Kentucky, which offers a variety of nursing homes. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category grades, which are also strong. It is hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.
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Cherokee Park Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Bariatric Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility received even higher marks in nursing. We gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Our nursing score weighs many components, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a score of A- for our long-term care score. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 90.804596 percent of its patients. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Facility Inspections
Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a favorable grade of B. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cherokee Park Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a fall leading to severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 11.95% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 18.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some experts argue that this is a measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 94.34% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 17.62% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 18.97% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 18.97% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 10.74% of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cherokee Park Rehabilitation, 78.66% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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