Bloomington Rehabilitation & Hcc

While we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we gave it a B- for our nursing category. Our nursing rating includes a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this statistic. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a B- in that category, which happens to be another one of its better scores. Our short-term care ratings are arguably more critical for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility received really weak government inspection reports in recent years, causing them to receive an F for inspections. An F in this category is typically a signal that there were some red flags on the facility's government inspections. For facilities with poor inspection scores, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

The last category we graded is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a very poor score. Long-term care scores 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. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 88.42975 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.