Champaign Urbana Nrsg & Rehab

With an address in Savoy, Illinois, Champaign Urbana Nrsg & Rehab is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to avoid of this place. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this place earned a decent grade in our short-term care category. We provide more information about this category below.

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B- in that category. Short-term care grades are critical for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. This can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This place performed respectably in this metric with 48.5 percent of its patients returning home.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place offered just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection grade where it received an F. This usually means we found red flags on its government inspection reports. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to create actual harm to residents. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines recently of more than $100,000. This generally means that a facility's bad track record spanned multiple years.

Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home really didn't perform very well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 85.04155 percent of its patients. We were stunned with its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 5.6 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than twice the national average. This is definitely a concerning statistic.