Arcola Health Care Center

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care rating is one of its better scores. The facility was awarded a B- in this area. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated just 90.51384 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. This place did not excel here either, with 2.76 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of patients.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This place provided a meager 2.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This number is well below the national average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in several of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this metric. This is quite alarming when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.

The final category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we were not shocked to discover this facility was below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. The nursing home offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 32.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.