Corn Heritage Village and Rehab

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to point out that this facility received a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 96.57534 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. The nursing score includes a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. It received an abysmal F for this area. Even with several acceptable grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. It appears that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the staffing figures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.