Mattoon Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent danger to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a D for its long-term care grade, which happens to be one of its better category grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.07693 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we expected but still a decent figure. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that category. With our short-term care category, we try to create a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next area we graded was nursing, where this facility was given an abysmal score in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.