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Helmwood Healthcare Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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106 Diecks Drive,
Elizabethtown KY 42701

(270) 737-2738

88.66% estimated occupancy 1

Helmwood Healthcare Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Sporting an overall rating of B+, this is a very good nursing home. This should be on your short list in Elizabethtown as we ranked it as one of the three highest rated nursing homes in the city. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded an above average long-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.25843 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we expected. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

The next category we scored was nursing, in which this nursing home received a grade of B-. While this ended up being its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure which is well below average. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Helmwood Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 9.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 1.69% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients which suffered a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 27.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 22.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 5.85% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 93.37% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines indispensable.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 10.34% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 28.47% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 28.47% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 11.55% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Helmwood Healthcare Center, 72.35% of Resident

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

Scores for Elizabethtown, KY

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • 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 A-plus

Looking for more options? Elizabethtown, Kentucky has 4 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Hardin Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.16 miles away913 North Dixie Avenue Elizabethtown Kentucky 42701Government - Local(270) 737-1212

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - of Hardin County1.36 miles away1324 Woodland Drive, Ste B Elizabethtown Kentucky 42701Dialysis Stations: 13 (270) 763-0396
  • Davita - Dialysis of Central Kentucky2 miles away2807 Ring Road Elizabethtown Kentucky 42702Dialysis Stations: 29 (270) 735-1883
  • Davita - Radcliff Dialysis9.69 miles away180 East Lincoln Trail Blvd Radcliff Kentucky 40160Dialysis Stations: 12 (270) 352-2252
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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=185183