Serenity Health Care is located in Twin Falls, Idaho. This city has a population of 52,010 people. This facility received an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive ratings. We can not find many bad things to say about this nursing home. Its scores are as good as they get. Keep reading to see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good. It's hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
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Serenity Health Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its strong profile, this facility also was given a dominant long-term care grade, with a score of A-. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient more often.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was short-term care. This facility received a better than average nursing score this year, with a B. While this was not nearly as good as some of its other category grades, this remains one of our more impressive grades in this area. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more important for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Serenity Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Serenity Health Care, 3.16% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Serenity Health Care, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term care patients that experienced falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Serenity Health Care, 4.96% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term residents who had a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Serenity Health Care, 14.17% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Serenity Health Care, 4.5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Serenity Health Care, 4.1% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Serenity Health Care, 100% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Serenity Health Care, 19.23% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Serenity Health Care, 28.67% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Serenity Health Care, 0.47 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Serenity Health Care, 28.67% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Serenity Health Care, 5.89% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Serenity Health Care, 72.79% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Luke's Magic Valley RmcAcute Care Hospitals 0.44 miles away801 Pole Line Road West Twin Falls Idaho 83301Voluntary non-profit - Private(208) 814-1000
- St Luke's JeromeCritical Access Hospitals 9.85 miles away709 North Lincoln Avenue Jerome Idaho 83338Voluntary non-profit - Private(208) 814-9500
Nearby Dialysis
- Magic Valley Kidney Center1 miles away350 N Haven Dr Ste 100 Twin Falls Idaho 83301Dialysis Stations: 18 (208) 735-3914
- Twin Falls Dialysis Center1.83 miles away582 Pole Line Rd Twin Falls Idaho 83301CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (208) 733-2006