Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare is in Farmer City, Illinois, a city with a total of 2,984 people. This facility received an overall score of F. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to avoid of this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores
Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although this nursing home's overall score was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also didn't rate too badly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a C in that area, which ended up being among its more respectable scores. In our long-term care category, we weigh the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, as well as some quality measures. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. In computing our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Finally, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we rated is nursing. This nursing home received a rock bottom grade of F in that area. There are quite a few factors within this grade. Most of these data points relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who sustained falls leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This figure tells you the percent of long-term stay residents who had a UTI. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 30.45% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 87.4% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 13.9% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 17.56% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Farmer City Rehab & Healthcare, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Kirby Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 13.7 miles away1000 Medical Center Drive Monticello Illinois 61856Voluntary non-profit - Private(217) 762-2115
- Warner Hospital and Health ServicesCritical Access Hospitals 17.95 miles away422 W White St Clinton Illinois 61727Government - Local(217) 935-9571