Heritage Health-Carlinville

Heritage Health-Carlinville is an average-sized nursing home located in Carlinville, Illinois. This facility was given an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a well below average rating. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Carlinville. The city has just two other nursing homes. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection grade. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and 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 couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's long-term care rating is one of its respectable scores. The nursing home received a B- in this area. Long-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of care. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.14 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This particular facility averaged a meager 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is well below the national average. To pair with its below average totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had bad scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.

The final category we looked at was short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a very poor grade. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this category, we weren't shocked to learn that this place was well below average in two of the key staffing areas we assess. The facility supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 30.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.