Mclean County Nursing Home

With an address in Normal, Illinois, Mclean County Nursing Home is one of a mere three available nursing homes in the city. This is a well below average facility, with an overall grade of D. While this grade isn't too far off the city grade in Normal which is a C, you still should be able to do better. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong nursing rating. You can continue reading to find out about nursing and other category scores

Although we were not complementary of this facility's overall grade, it earned an impressive nursing score this year. We gave it a B+ in this area. Our nursing score is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Remarkably, this nursing home actually received a good score in inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Not many facilities that were this poor overall received multiple category grades of this caliber. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many deficiencies. This facility received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not an impressive grade. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.1573 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at is short-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D in the area of short-term care. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With a score in this range for this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 26.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.