Helia Healthcare of Belleville

On top of receiving a poor overall score, we also gave this nursing home poor grades across the board in each of the categories. It only received a grade of just D for its inspections rating, which was its best category. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. You should be especially cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for several years.

This facility ended up receiving a a very poor score in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. The nursing score includes many components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we graded was long-term care, where this facility received a poor score in this category as well. It received an F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 96.37681 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.