Decatur Wellness & Rehabilitation Center

While we did not have many positive things to say about this place's overall grade, it earned a somewhat respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent score in that category with a B-. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Our nursing score assesses quite a few subcategories, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's next highest category is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

The last area we rated was long-term care. This facility received a grade of B- for this category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals in need of more traditional services associated with personal care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.675674 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.