Charleston Rehab & Health Care Center
716 Eighteenth Street, Charleston IL 61920 · (217) 345-7054 · 44.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Charleston Rehab & Health Care Center is a large nursing home located in Charleston, Illinois. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Charleston. The city has just one other nursing home. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year. Hopefully, new ownership is able to elevate its quality standards.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 139 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections rating. This is due to the nursing home receiving a quality inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which was actually one of its more respectable category grades. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 43.8 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home received a grade of just D in this area. Facilities that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this facility gave the vaccine to only 65.671646 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this facility had 2.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing rating features a variety of factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided only 3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Charleston Rehab & Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered from a UTI. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better