Helia Healthcare of Champaign
1915 South Mattis Street, Champaign IL 61821 · (217) 352-0516 · 43.22% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Helia Healthcare of Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois. With an overall score of B-, this looks like a decent nursing home. Based on our assessment, there are certainly much worse facilities out there. The best part of this place's profile was is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A-. The nursing score considers many datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, it also received a first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we awarded this facility a score of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 63.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Even though we determined this facility had a favorable quantity of nursing care provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit slightly lower than we anticipated. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.70054 percent of its residents. This is one statistic we would really like to see this nursing home improve on. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. This place didn't excel here either, with 5.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Facility Inspections
The last category we assessed is inspections. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find that this nursing home received such a poor inspection grade. We gave it a score of just D in this category. This score is not on par with some of this nursing home's other category grades. Inspection grades relate to a nursing home's government inspections. Since this information is collected by independent inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 11 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 28 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Helia Healthcare of Champaign Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who have experienced a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better