Allis Care Center

In addition to receiving a terrible overall score, we also gave this nursing home weak scores across the board in the various categories. It received a D for its nursing grade, which turned out to be its best category. There are a number of datapoints included in this category. Many of the criteria are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 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-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Unfortunately, this facility received really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is often a signal that we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility's received a rock-bottom short-term care score where it was given an F. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last category we graded was long-term care, in which this facility received a rock bottom score in this category also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 91.53439 percent of its patients, which is a bit less than we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.