Meadowood

Meadowood is the sole option we identified in Grayville, Illinois. It looks like this is a fine facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable grade. As far as we can see, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it received an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category. In this area, we gave it an A. Inspection scores are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Illinois in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents more often.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also earned a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is generally a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last category we rated is long-term care. This facility was awarded a grade of C for this area. With our long-term care category, we focus on the sheer quantity of care provided by a facility, as well as a few quality data points. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.07407 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.