Mckendree Village

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a score of B. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.21414 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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 weighed the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

Our final area is short-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a C in this category. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.