Caseyville Nursing & Rehab Center

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us anything positive to point out. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this place offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, this facility received a lowly F for its inspection rating. This is a particularly important category. Scores in this range typically mean we found red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For places with bad inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

The final category we scored was long-term care, where this facility received a rock bottom grade in this area also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. Long-term care ratings 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. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 30.990416 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.