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Plum Creek Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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Plum Creek Care Center's website

1505 North Adams Street,
Lexington NE 68850

(308) 324-5531

37.57% estimated occupancy 1

Plum Creek Care Center is a small nursing home located in Lexington, Nebraska. Featuring an overall grade of C, this appears to be a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our assessment, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong short-term care grade, which you can find in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Audiology

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home earned a short-term care grade which is better than its overall grade. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in this area. This really helped its overall profile. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also excelled in our nursing category, where it earned an B+. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Nebraska in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving residents even once per day.

Facility Inspections

Grade: C

This nursing home's inspection grade appears to be one of its best features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This tells you that it dodged the more ominous categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home didn't perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this was this nursing home's poorest category grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 78.49463 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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Plum Creek Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Plum Creek Care Center, 8.54% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Plum Creek Care Center, 3.23% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients that sustained a fall leading to severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Plum Creek Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care residents which experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric can also be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Plum Creek Care Center, 14.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Plum Creek Care Center, 16.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Plum Creek Care Center, 3.41% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Plum Creek Care Center, 88.35% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A

In Plum Creek Care Center, 7.78% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Plum Creek Care Center, 20.25% of Residents

This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Plum Creek Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Plum Creek Care Center, 20.25% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

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  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=285159