Evergreen Nursing & Rehab Center

Evergreen Nursing & Rehab Center is located in Effingham, Illinois. This nursing home was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. Effingham received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this metric with 48.8 percent of its patients returning home.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the pack score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.36 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Switching gears to our final category, we gave this facility a D for our nursing category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. When computing our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place offered a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had bad marks in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing falls leading to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.