Correctionville Specialty Care

Although we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a grade of B. This is better than most facilities in this category. In computing our nursing grades, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is not one of our better scores. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 90.7563 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly below the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. When a place has this bad of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular facility had one deficiency on its inspection report. We were relieved to find that it wasn't in a category that suggests that it caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this place was assessed large government fines recently of more than $50,000. This generally means that CMS inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad government inspections.