Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac's website

300 West Lowell,
Pontiac IL 61764

(815) 842-1181

80.1% estimated occupancy ¹

Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac is in Pontiac, Illinois, a city with 14,460 people. This facility is a lower end facility. A score of this caliber indicates we found some red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Pontiac. The city has just two other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Hemodialysis
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Bariatric Care

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

While we didn't give this place a good overall score, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility's next most favorable area was its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are meaningful for individuals in need of non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 85.50186 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly lower than what we were hoping for. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

Nurse Quality

The next category we rated is nursing. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in that category. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who have had a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percent of long-term patients that experienced a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 30.45% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 87.4% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 13.9% Percentage of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some experts believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 17.56% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Some believe that mobility is critical to patients well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 11.82 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 71.65% Percentage of Resident

Measures the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.