Loft Rehabilitation & Nursing

Loft Rehabilitation & Nursing is an average-sized nursing home located in Eureka, Illinois. This facility was given an overall rating of F. This place is really as bad as it gets. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next section.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Incredibly, we gave this facility a grade of B- for its short-term care rating, which really isn't a bad grade. Our short-term care grades are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 39.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 74.583336 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.89 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility didn't fare as well as the average nursing home.

In the last category of inspections, this nursing home fared very poorly. It received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be our most heavily weighted category in our overall grading system. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.