McLeansboro Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. With our short-term care score, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we scored is long-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in that area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 75 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.