St. Luke's Helen G. Nassif Transitional Care Center

• 2024 & 2025 High Performing Rating, U.S. News & World Report - St. Luke's Helen G. Nassif Transitional Care Center achieved the High Performing rating by U.S. News & World Report, placing the center among the top 19 percent of skilled-nursing facilities nationwide.*

We recognize family and friends play an important role in care and wellbeing. We’re here for our Cedar Rapids community, and we encourage family and friends to meet with the UnityPoint Clinic nurse practitioner and nursing staff to stay updated on a patient’s care plan. Guests are welcome at any time. The Transitional Care Center team will help guide patients and their families through the healthcare system.

The Transitional Care Center team has helped generations of patients successfully transition from hospital to home. Building on our expertise with St. Luke’s Living Centers, our professional approach to healing includes daily, individualized therapy sessions to help patients regain the strength, stability, and confidence they need to function at their best.

• Shorter length of stay: average is 14 days
• UnityPoint Clinic nurse practitioners are onsite five days a week
• Low re-hospitalization rates
• Larger, state-of-the-art facility to accommodate a growing need for this level of care
• Enhanced care/long-term care stays with skilled nursing care

Patients and their loved ones will have access to their schedule through a web application (or paper, if preferred), from wherever they are. This scheduling solution is powered by Skilled Day.

Patient care is driven by input from hospital doctors and the patient’s primary doctor. From there, our team of providers, nurses, social workers, physical, occupational and speech therapists design a personalized care plan. From regular visits by a nurse practitioner to a custom rehabilitation program geared at strengthening the body, all services are uniquely tailored to help each patient achieve their individual health goals.

Enhanced care/long-term care residents enjoy daily interaction with staff to assist with their supportive needs.

Each patient’s team meets at their bedside early in your stay, and every week during their recovery. We discuss how they’re doing and identify goals to work on to get them back home. With medical providers onsite five days per week, the team includes:

• Patient
• Support Person
• Nursing
• Medical Providers
• Social Work
• Therapy
• Administration

Enhanced care/long-term care residents will also receive regular communication from our care team during their stay.

Each resident enjoys their own private space in our skilled nursing facility, creating a peaceful and personalized environment where they can relax and feel at ease.

All rooms include private bathrooms. The bathrooms feature zero-entry showers with built-in bench seating, offering both safety and comfort while promoting independence.

Every room comes fully furnished and includes a television with cable service and Wi-Fi access, making it easy for residents to stay entertained and connected with family and friends. For enhanced comfort, residents rest in electric hospital beds that are larger than standard twin-size beds, providing extra space and customizable positioning for the best support.

Both short-term care patients and long-term care residents will benefit from large open hallways with several welcoming social areas to mingle and visit with others. We also have a variety of outside sitting areas to enjoy warm sunny days.

Our transitional care center blends safety, functionality, and comfort so each resident feels secure, respected, and truly at home.

*Best Nursing Homes ratings are based on U.S. News’ in-depth analysis of publicly available data, including information that is not factored into CMS’s star ratings. Unlike the star ratings, the U.S. News ratings recognize that patients undergoing relatively short-term rehabilitation have very different needs from those who require longer-term care.