Avenues at Litchfield is located in Litchfield, Illinois, a city with a population of 8,930 people. Featuring an overall rating of C, this looks like a middle of the road facility. In our view, this facility ought to be a good fit for most people. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection reports, which is addressed in the next section.
Avenues at Litchfield
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- No Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category 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. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
An additional strength of this nursing home is its impressive grade in long-term care. We gave them one of our best scores in that category, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. In our short-term care score, we seek to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care score.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the final category, this nursing home really didn't perform well. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this was this nursing home's poorest category. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 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 computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Avenues at Litchfield Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Avenues at Litchfield, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Avenues at Litchfield, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Avenues at Litchfield, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Avenues at Litchfield, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Avenues at Litchfield, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Avenues at Litchfield, 30.45% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Avenues at Litchfield, 87.4% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Avenues at Litchfield, 13.9% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Avenues at Litchfield, 17.56% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Avenues at Litchfield, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Avenues at Litchfield, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Francis HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.8 miles away1215 Franciscan Dr Litchfield Illinois 62056Voluntary non-profit - Church(217) 324-2191
- Hillsboro Area HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 8.7 miles away1200 E Tremont Street Hillsboro Illinois 62049Voluntary non-profit - Private(217) 532-6111
- Community Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.3 miles away400 N Caldwell St Staunton Illinois 62088Voluntary non-profit - Private(618) 635-2200
- Carlinville Area HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 15.57 miles away20733 N Broad Street Carlinville Illinois 62626Voluntary non-profit - Private(217) 854-3141
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Litchfield Dialysis0.81 miles away915 St Francis Way Litchfield Illinois 62056CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (217) 324-2200
- Total Renal Care - Montgomery County Dialysis8.47 miles away1822 Senator Miller Dr. Hillsboro Illinois 62049Dialysis Stations: 8 (217) 532-3000