Bloomington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's long-term care rating is one of its respectable grades. The facility was awarded a B- in this category. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.64706 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next best area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a C. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.