Helia Healthcare of Belleville

This nursing home did not receive any favorable grades. In particular, we gave it an F in the category of nursing. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a bit below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Given its weak rating in this area, we were not stunned to find this place offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home really didn't fare well in this area either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.233086 percent of its patients, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.