Flora Gardens Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Flora Gardens Care Center's website

701 Shadwell Avenue,
Flora IL 62839

(618) 662-8361

45.56% estimated occupancy ¹

Flora Gardens Care Center is a senior living facility in Flora, Illinois. The city has 6,718 people. This is a well below average facility, with an overall grade of D. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Flora. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Physical Therapy
Pharmacy
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Audiology
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with too many deficiencies flagged. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

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Long-term Care Quality

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care grade, which is not an impressive grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 80.86957 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we scored was short-term care. This facility received a poor grade of F in that category. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Flora Gardens Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 8.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure measures the percent of long-term residents who sustained a fall leading to major injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 18.4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 19.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 29.8% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 87.49% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 14.23% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 19.34% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that maintained mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is important for patients physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 1.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 19.34 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 11.45 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 71.39% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.