Bloomington Rehabilitation & Hcc

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing grade is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides 3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

Surprisingly, we gave this nursing home a grade of B- for our short-term care rating, which really isn't a bad grade. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this facility received a very poor score in this area also. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is definitely very concerning. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 86.4 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.