Hirest Home

Hirest Home is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Geneseo, Illinois. It looks like this is a fine nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable grade. You could definitely do much worse than this place. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.450424 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We looked at the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This particular facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, although this place did not rank highly in terms of nursing hours, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.

Moving on to the next area, we gave this facility a D for the area of short-term care. This is the nursing home's worst category rating. However, we would not over-emphasize a single poor category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 32.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.