Arcola Health Care Center is located in Arcola, Illinois. With a terrible overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. This nursing home doesn't seem to have much going for it. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Arcola Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Note: Arcola Health Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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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
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second highest score was long-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This ended up being a well below average grade. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 92.41071 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.
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Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is not a score to write home about. Short-term care ratings are critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is a poor grade. The nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, however, the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Finally, 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.
Arcola Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Arcola Health Care Center, 15.52% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Arcola Health Care Center, 6.25% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that experienced falls leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Arcola Health Care Center, 3.77% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Arcola Health Care Center, 54.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Arcola Health Care Center, 36.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Arcola Health Care Center, 63.13% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Arcola Health Care Center, 93.9% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Arcola Health Care Center, 12.2% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Arcola Health Care Center, 6.58% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Arcola Health Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Arcola Health Care Center, 6.58% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Arcola Health Care Center, 6.65% of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Arcola Health Care Center, 58.42% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Sarah Bush Lincoln Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.12 miles away1000 Health Center Drive P O Box 372 Mattoon Illinois 61938Voluntary non-profit - Private(217) 258-2572
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Mattoon Dialysis13.26 miles away6051 Developement Drive Charleston Illinois 61920CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (217) 345-2550