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Cedar Healthcare Center

  • Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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Cedar Healthcare Center's website

188 Jones Avenue,
Portsmouth NH 03801

(603) 431-2530

81.37% estimated occupancy 1

Cedar Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Lymphedema Care
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

To go along with its strong overall performance, we gave this facility an A- for the area of inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are vital for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The final category we assessed was long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of services provided by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 91.8644 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Jul 22

Cedar Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 6.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 5.18% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents who have sustained a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 3.06% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that have had urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 16.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 16.72% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 5.54% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents exhibiting signs of depression. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 95.74% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 19.68% Percentage of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 24.67% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: F

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 1.18 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 24.67 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 11.85 Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Cedar Healthcare Center, 77.92% Percentage of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Portsmouth Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.46 miles away333 Borthwick Ave Portsmouth New Hampshire 03801Proprietary(603) 436-5110
  • York HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.94 miles away15 Hospital Drive York Maine 03909Voluntary non-profit - Private(207) 363-4321
  • Exeter Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 10.37 miles away5 Alumni Drive Exeter New Hampshire 03833Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 778-7311
  • Wentworth-Douglass HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.04 miles away789 Central Ave Dover New Hampshire 03820Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 740-2580
  • Anna Jaques HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.55 miles away25 Highland Avenue Newburyport Massachusetts 01950Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 463-1000
  • Frisbie Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.32 miles away11 Whitehall Road Rochester New Hampshire 03867Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 332-5211

Nearby Dialysis

  • Seacoast Dialysis Center1.74 miles away155 Borthwick Ave Suite 100 Portsmouth New Hampshire 03801Dialysis Stations: 18 (603) 436-4567
  • Fmc Dialysis Services of Exeter10.01 miles away1 Hampton Road, Suite 109 Exeter New Hampshire 03833Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 777-9931
  • Fresenius Medical Care of Cocheco River12.8 miles away343 Sixth Street Dover New Hampshire 03820Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 742-9765
  • Fmc of Newburyport18.18 miles away260 Merrimac Street Towle Building Newburyport Massachusetts 01950CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (978) 465-7030

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=305082