Cedars Healthcare Center

Services and Housing Options

Memory Care, Nursing Home, Respite, Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation

Estimated Pricing

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Cedars Healthcare Center Description

If you or a loved one is in need of skilled nursing care, Cedars Healthcare Center in Charlottesville, Va. is the perfect place! We offer short-term and long-term recovery and senior rehabilitation services that focus on your emotional and physical well-being. We work hard to create a supportive environment where our senior care services provide an excellent experience for everyone involved. At our skilled nursing home in Charlottesville, we believe that every moment spent with us is an opportunity to heal and delight our residents. Our senior care services are designed to provide the highest level of comfort and happiness for all who come under our care.

Ranking

Ranking in City: 9 out of 10 communities in Charlottesville

Ranking in State: 294 out of 400 communities in VA

Parent Organization

Cedars Healthcare Center is a member of a larger group of communities called Communicare Health

Amenities

Cedars Healthcare Center offers a variety of amenities to its residents. They provide restaurant-style dining, beauty salon/barber shop services, and laundry service. All of these services help the residents maintain their independence and feel comfortable during their stay.

Services

Cedars Healthcare Center offers a variety of services to its patients. These include e-stim central lines and peripheral antibiotic therapy, out-patient dialysis, licensed wound care physician services, gastronomy care, functional maintenance post-surgical orthopedic care, stroke care, post-operative orthopedic care, on-staff wound-certified RN TPN ultrasound & diathermy wound vacs, specialized wound care management, pain management, cardiac rehab care and more. The center is dedicated to providing quality medical services to its patients.

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Employee Reviews for Communicare Health in Charlottesville, Virginia

2.6 out of 5 stars. Based on 10 reviews

Employees who have worked for Communicare Health in the Charlottesville, VA area have mixed reviews. Many say it is a good place to start for those who want to gain experience, but there is a lot of gossip and it can be difficult to trust. Some employees have experienced favoritism and unfair treatment, while others have found the staff to be friendly and the DON to be a great person who stands up for her staff and residents. Many employees have noted that the organization is family-oriented and that the residents give a sense of belonging. For those who are good at their job and understand that long-term care can be challenging, Communicare Health is a great place to work. However, those who are expecting a lot of money without putting in the work should look elsewhere.

Employee Reviews for Communicare Health

2.46 out of 5 stars. Based on 716 reviews

Cons:Understaffed, no recognition for hard work, and lack of support from management. Advice to Management:Listen to your employees, show appreciation for hard work, and provide better support for staff.

Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This nursing community has been given an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid receiving 2 stars on its health inspection, 4 stars on its quality measures rating, and 1 stars on its staffing rating. Within the quality measure rating, each facility is given a short-stay rating and a long-stay rating. This facility received a 3-star short-stay rating and a 4-star long-stay rating. This nursing home is certified by Medicare and Medicaid and was first approved to provide Medicare and Medicaid services on 02/01/85 and is run by a for profit organization. It is a large-sized nursing community with 141 nursing beds. Currently, there are 109 residents within the nursing community. Be advised these resident occupancy numbers are not always up to date and are collected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website periodically.

Alerts from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

This facility has not been given a health inspection within the last 2 years. This facility has been given 7 fines by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a total of $25,805.00. The facility has had 7 substantiated complaints reported in the last 3 years that resulted in a citation.

Overall Ratings

Cedars Healthcare Center, a nursing home, holds an overall rating of 1-star, the lowest possible rating, placing it in the bottom 20% of facilities in terms of overall rating. This rating falls notably below the state average. Furthermore, it has a 2-star health inspection rating, the second lowest possible, positioning it in the lower 40% range of facilities when it comes to health inspection ratings, which is again below the state average. However, showcasing considerable strength in the quality of services, Cedars Healthcare Center proudly secures a 4-star quality rating, the second highest possible. This puts the nursing home in the top half of facilities in terms of quality rating, a score that surpasses the state average.

Staff Ratings

Cedars Healthcare Center, a nursing home, has a concerning staff rating of just one-star, which is the lowest possible rating. In terms of nursing aid staffing hours, the facility is in the lower 30% of all facilities, offering only 1.81 hours of nursing aid per resident per day, which is less than the state's average of 1.94 hours per resident. The nursing home does somewhat better in terms of LPN staffing hours, falling into the top half of all facilities. However, its 0.87 LPN staffing hours per resident per day is still less than the state's average of 1.02 hours. When it comes to RN staffing hours, the facility falls in the bottom half of facilities with only 0.5 hours per resident per day, compared to the state's average of 0.6 hours. Furthermore, its licensed staffing hours and physical therapist staffing hours per resident per day are both below the state's average, which leads to it being placed in the bottom half of facilities in these respective categories as well.

Covid Data

The Cedars Healthcare Center is a highly-rated nursing home, recognized for its commitment to keep both residents and staff vaccinated. The center places itself in the top half of comparable facilities, with a resident vaccination rate slightly surpassing the state average. Specifically, 66.1% of the Cedars Healthcare Center's residents are up to date with their latest vaccinations, which is significantly higher than the state's resident vaccination rate of 61.9%. The center's dedication to health doesn't stop with the residents; the staff vaccination rate is also exemplary. In fact, the nursing home is within the top 20% of facilities regarding its staff up to date with the latest vaccination rate, which stands at a remarkable 49.6%, far above the state's staff average vaccination rate of 25.9%. This underscores the facility's attention to prioritizing the health and safety of its community.

Quality Measures

The Cedars Healthcare Center is an esteemed nursing home as evidenced by its 4-star quality measure rating, which is the second highest possible rating it could attain. However, it's notable that the facility does have challenges pertaining to mental health, as it is ranked in the bottom 10% of nursing homes in terms of the percent of patients displaying depressive symptoms. A concerning 24.04% of its residents report such symptoms, a figure which contrasts starkly to the state average of 5.84%. Interestingly though, The Cedars Healthcare Center is in the top half of nursing homes when it comes to the percent of residents reporting one or more falls with a major injury. With a percentage of 2.45, it is performing better than the state average of 3.39% in that category. Despite its stronger performance in fall prevention, it is clear that managing depressive symptoms among its residents remains an important area of focus for The Cedars Healthcare Center.

Emergency and Hospitalization Quality Measures

The Cedars Healthcare Center, a nursing home, ranks in the lower 50% of facilities when it comes to hospitalizations per 1000 days, recording a rate of 1.81 compared to the statewide average of 1.49. This trend extends to outpatient emergency department visits per 1000 days where its rate of 1.34 puts it in the bottom 40% of facilities, higher than the state's average of 1.11. However, the center performs positively in certain areas. It ranks in the top 40% of facilities in the realm of short-term residents who had outpatient emergency department visits, though its 9.87% is lower than the state average of 13.11%. The center's resilience shines in their percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission. At a rate of 17.78% they find themselves in the upper 30% of institutions, consistently lower than the state's average of 22.09%.

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