Hickory Creek at Sunset

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Hickory Creek at Sunset's website

1109 S Indiana Street,
Greencastle IN 46135

(765) 246-3241

54.99% estimated occupancy ¹

Hickory Creek at Sunset is a small facility in Greencastle, Indiana. Sporting an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most people. If you take a look at the other options in Greencastle, we are confident you will find this place to be a better option than most of the facilities in the city. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Palliative Care
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we gave it a grade of A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.14286 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning to the third area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

The last area we graded was nursing, where this nursing home received a B-. Although this ended up being its lowest category score, this is still not a major area of concern. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this metric. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a resident more frequently.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Hickory Creek at Sunset Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 7.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 3.93% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 1.87% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 13.18% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 21.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 12.89% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 91.48% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 15.74% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 15.7% Percentage of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 15.7 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 11.29 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 73.78% Percentage of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.

Scores for Greencastle, IN

Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

Looking for more options? Greencastle, Indiana has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

Putnam County HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.23 miles away1542 S Bloomington St Greencastle Indiana 46135Government - Local(765) 301-7300
St Vincent Clay Hospital IncCritical Access Hospitals 15.08 miles away1206 E National Ave Brazil Indiana 47834Voluntary non-profit - Private(812) 442-2500

Nearby Dialysis

Fmc - Greencastle1.26 miles away316 Medic Way Greencastle Indiana 46135Dialysis Stations: 13 (765) 653-0000
Davita Brazil Dialysis15.11 miles away115 S. Murphy Avenue Brazil Indiana 47834Dialysis Stations: 9 (812) 442-8481