Dyer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
601 Sheffield Ave, Dyer IN 46311 · (219) 322-2273 · 86.89% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Dyer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Dyer, Indiana. This facility was given an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Dyer. The city has just two other nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was nursing, which is discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 161 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We just couldn't find anything positive to say about this nursing home. It received just a just D in the area of nursing. Unfortunately, this ended up being its best grade. The nursing grade weighs many subcategories, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. Facilities that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home vaccinated just 56.818184 percent of its residents, which is slightly concerning. We were stunned with the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is definitely a concerning figure.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection score where it received an F. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 58 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed was short-term care. We gave it an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. In this place's case, we found that it offers far less registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. Given its score in this category, this did not surprise us. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 27.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Dyer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
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 injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better