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 pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Pontiac. The only positive thing we can really say about this place is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
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Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- 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
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Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall grade. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. 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.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this metric.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this place offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents 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 patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's least impressive category was long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.44358 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
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, 8.8% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 3.56% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 2.49% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by poor nursing care. However, this metric could be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 18.65% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 19.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 31.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 87.05% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 13.3% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 14.44% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 1.92 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 14.44 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 13.66 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Accolade Healthcare of Pontiac, 69.52% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Pontiac0.85 miles away804 W. Madison St. Pontiac Illinois 61764Dialysis Stations: 10 (815) 844-4340