A Merkle C Knipprath Nursing Home

A Merkle C Knipprath Nursing Home is the lone facility located in Clifton, Illinois. It looks like this is a fine facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes fared better in that category. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its high-end short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our strongest grades in that category, with a score of A-. In our short-term care score, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. This place performed as well as just about any facility in the country with 59.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to the next area, this facility was awarded a grade of B- for long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable score. Long-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated a relatively low 90.08264 percent of its residents. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 1.99 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is also slightly below average.