Eagle Creek Nursing Center
141 Spruce Lane, West Union OH 45693 · (937) 544-5531 · 90.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Eagle Creek Nursing Center is a senior living facility located in West Union, Ohio, a city with 8,981 people. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall grade of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in West Union. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to point out this nursing home's rock-bottom short-term care score where it was given a lowly F. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is frequently a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 32.8 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care area. It received an F in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 45.05814 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.29 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Nurse Quality
The final category we analyzed is nursing, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. It received an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely very concerning. The nursing score includes several data points, most of which are based on nursing hours. With a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Eagle Creek Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better