Oak Creek Rehabilitation

    500 Polk St E East, Kimberly, ID 83341
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Warm, attentive short-term rehab care

    I stayed in Oak Creek's short-term rehab and appreciated the warm, caring staff and one-on-one attention - nurses and therapists (PT/OT/ST) were attentive, helped with medication management, and kept me mentally engaged despite COVID limits. Management was responsive, the facility feels family-like with activities and holiday events, and the team went above and beyond to make a stressful time easier. I highly recommend Oak Creek for compassionate, professional care in a quiet, small-facility setting.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.65·(31)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.7
    • Staff

      4.2
    • Meals

      3.6
    • Amenities

      1.0
    • Value

      3.6

    Pros

    • Comprehensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy
    • Dedicated short-term rehabilitation unit
    • Attentive nursing and medical monitoring
    • Compassionate, family-like caregiving staff
    • Dedicated activity and social-services departments
    • Regular social events and holiday programming
    • One-on-one staff attention
    • Responsive management and administrative staff (where present)
    • Small facility in a quiet neighborhood
    • Clean and well-maintained common areas
    • Encouraging rehabilitation environment focused on recovery

    Cons

    • Inconsistent personal-care delivery (bathing and oral care)
    • Sanitation and pest-control concerns in resident rooms and common areas
    • Inconsistent staffing levels and high staff turnover
    • Gaps in medication monitoring associated with excessive daytime drowsiness
    • Excessive noise from paging, alarms, and televisions
    • Temperature-control and HVAC reliability issues
    • Gaps in resident supervision and elopement-prevention protocols
    • Inconsistent family communication and intake/visitation processes
    • Management instability and uneven leadership responsiveness
    • Activity reductions during infection-control periods limiting engagement

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews for Oak Creek Rehabilitation present a mixed picture. Many reviewers praise the facility’s clinical rehabilitation offerings and the day-to-day compassion of caregiving staff, while a number of operational and environment concerns recur across accounts. Prospective residents and families will find evidence of a functioning short-term rehab unit with physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and frequent nursing/medical attention for residents working toward recovery.

    Care and staff: Several accounts describe a dedicated, family-like caregiving culture and attentive nurses and therapists who encourage rehabilitation and answer clinical questions. At the same time, reviews indicate inconsistent staffing levels and turnover that appear to affect continuity of care. There are also repeated references to lapses in basic personal-care tasks (for example, inconsistent bathing and oral care) and concerns about staff conduct or responsiveness in some interactions. Reviewers also raised concerns about medication monitoring; specifically, there are observations tying medication effects to excessive daytime drowsiness for some residents, indicating a need to review prescribing and monitoring practices.

    Activities and social services: Oak Creek offers active programming when possible — holiday parties, entertainment, and social-services support to keep residents connected with family. Activity and social-services departments receive positive mention for engagement and for adapting during infection-control periods. That said, activity offerings were curtailed during COVID-related restrictions, and some families found programming less robust during those times.

    Facilities, safety, and environment: The facility is described by some as small and situated in a quiet neighborhood, with clean common areas. Offsetting that, reviewers also cite sanitation and pest-control concerns in certain rooms or units, reliability problems with temperature control and HVAC, and cramped room layouts. Noise is a commonly cited nuisance factor — frequent paging, alarms, and loud televisions were described as affecting residents’ ability to rest. Safety concerns were raised in connection with supervision and resident elopement-prevention protocols, suggesting the facility should clarify and demonstrate its safety procedures to families.

    Management and communication: Opinions about leadership are mixed. Some reviewers note responsive management and improvements under new administrators, while others describe problematic intake and visitation handling, poor family communication after adverse events, and uneven leadership responsiveness. A small number of accounts reference serious outcomes that prompted family transfers and calls for regulatory attention; these emphasize the importance of transparent communication and robust policies for incident response and end-of-life coordination.

    Overall pattern and recommendations: The strongest, consistent positives are the rehabilitation services and many staff who provide compassionate, one-on-one care and active programming. The principal operational weaknesses center on inconsistent staffing and personal care, environmental maintenance (sanitation, pests, HVAC), medication monitoring, noise control, and variability in management responsiveness. Families considering Oak Creek should schedule an in-person tour, review staffing ratios and turnover, ask about pest-control and HVAC maintenance records, request information on medication-review processes, observe noise levels at different times, and clarify visitation/intake and incident-communication protocols before placement.

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    Medicare Ratings

    2·/ 5
    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Oak Creek Rehabilitation is located at 500 Polk St E East, Kimberly, ID, 83341.

    About Oak Creek Rehabilitation

    Oak Creek Rehabilitation sits as a facility that offers nursing care and a variety of rehabilitation services like physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and you'll find the staff helps with medication management, wound care, IV therapy, diabetic support, and even specialized cardiac care for conditions such as CHF, COPD, and recovery after surgeries like knee or hip replacements, and then there's help for memory care, behavioral care needs, adult day services, home health care, respite, and hospice care. The building holds 57 certified beds and most days about 39 residents stay there, and they've got both private and semi-private rooms with standard amenities along with communal areas for dining and social activities, and the meals aim to be nutritious and pleasant. The nursing staff provides 24/7 care under physician direction, but the nursing hours per resident per day are 3.01, which falls below the state average of 4.1, so while staff works hard, there may be less support at times than elsewhere, and nurse turnover is higher than average, with a rate of 72.9% compared to the 46.4% state rate, which might mean you see new faces more often than not. Inspections have found 10 deficiencies, including one related to infections, and there have been documented failures concerning resident protection from abuse, neglect, and actual harm, plus a couple of issues around not reporting suspected abuse quickly, so while they try to serve people's health needs, these are important things families might want to know about. The community accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance, and while their scores for staffing and inspection reports are lower than many other places, their quality measures rate much above average, and the overall CMS rating sits just slightly below average-not the highest, but not the lowest either. You'll find therapists on site who work to help folks recover and get back home when possible, and Oak Creek Rehabilitation organizes community activities, offers both short and long-term care, and keeps an eye on the basics like meals and room options, providing services in a home-like setting without any unnecessary frills.

    People often ask...

    Oak Creek Rehabilitation offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

    The full address for this community is 500 Polk St E East, Kimberly, ID 83341.

    No, Oak Creek Rehabilitation does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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