Eastview Terrace

Eastview Terrace is a small nursing home located in Sullivan, Illinois. This nursing home received an overall rating of F. This facility is just about as bad as it gets. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the category of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C in that area, which ended up being among its higher scores. In the category of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of services provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.938774 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.

We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it a grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility averaged just 2.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had really poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing grade.

The next area we rated was short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 13.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.