Jacksonville Skilled Nursing & Rehab

Jacksonville Skilled Nursing & Rehab is an average-sized nursing home located in Jacksonville, Illinois. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good rating. Based on the data we reviewed, you could do much worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a score of B+. In our short-term care category, we attempt to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It doesn't look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was respectable in this area with 46.6 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. This is one of just a couple of weak links on a quality profile. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.