Bloomington Rehabilitation & Hcc

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care offered.

We were also pleasantly surprised to find that this nursing home received a solid short-term care score in our assessment. We gave it a B- in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is more often than not a fair measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

We also wanted to point out this place's inspection score where it received an F. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The next category we scored was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade in this area also. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated only 88.888885 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.