Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center is the sole nursing home located in Carrier Mills, Illinois. With an overall rating of B, this looks like a very respectable option. Based on the data we reviewed, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B. We looked at the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients even once per day.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's third most favorable category turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it was given a B-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we analyzed was long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of C for the area. In calculating our long-term care grades, we look at the assistance with daily living offered to the nursing home's residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 6.9% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 3.46% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 5.83% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. More frequent bathing can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 14.34% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 17.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 48.24% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Higher rates of depression may be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 99.65% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 22.91% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 24.13% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 24.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 27.11% of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Carrier Mills Nsg & Rehab Center, 60.56% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.