Crest Haven Care Centre is one of just a couple available nursing homes located in Creston, Iowa. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average score. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this facility. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Crest Haven Care Centre
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B+. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. For this area, we gave this nursing home a D. We want to to draw your attention to this possible weak link, however, you shouldn't over-emphasize a single area either. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.958336 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Crest Haven Care Centre Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients that experienced UTI's. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which were given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term care patients who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 4.48% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 94.58% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 16.82% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 19.24% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Many would argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Crest Haven Care Centre, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Nearby Hospitals
- Greater Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 1.94 miles away1700 West Townline Street Creston Iowa 50801Government - Local(641) 782-7091
- Adair County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.55 miles away609 Se Kent Greenfield Iowa 50849Government - Local(641) 743-2123
Nearby Dialysis
- Creston Dialysis1.94 miles away1700 W Townline St #2b Creston Iowa 50801Dialysis Stations: 8 (641) 782-5202