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Flora Gardens Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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701 Shadwell Avenue,
Flora IL 62839

(618) 662-8361

54.02% estimated occupancy ¹

Flora Gardens Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Flora, Illinois. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack grade. This facility seems to have a few things going for it. The best part of this facility's profile was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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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

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall score. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Nurse Quality

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. There are many criteria within this grade. Many of the criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's next best category was short-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 3.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

Long-term Care Quality

The next area we rated was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care, rendering this the facility's least impressive grade. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.24084 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Flora Gardens Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 14.1% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of long-term care residents who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 2.09% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents which suffered falls leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 4.02% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 37.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of long-term care residents who are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 16.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 2.29% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 92.38% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 10.92% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 8.38% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 8.38% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 27.42% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Flora Gardens Care Center, 53.71% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.