Hickory Creek at Sunset is a small facility in Greencastle, Indiana. Sporting an overall rating of B, this facility is a very good option. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. 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.
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Hickory Creek at Sunset
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- 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
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Registered Staff Hours
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 100 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
The third category we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Nurse Quality
Our next category is nursing, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area. Our nursing grade includes a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents 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, 7.36% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 4.17% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 1.69% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 13.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for many conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 22.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 14.48% of Patients
This is the percent of residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 91.03% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 15.46% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 12.91% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 1.53 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 12.91 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 12.43 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hickory Creek at Sunset, 73.74% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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