Dixon Rehab & Hcc

Dixon Rehab & Hcc is a nursing home located in Dixon, Illinois. This city has a population of 23,745 people. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. We were also pleased to discover that this nursing home was consistent in all four of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far better than its overall rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given impressive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second highest score. Short-term care scores are important for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning 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. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Illinois in this area with 56.1 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.578125 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.65 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.