Mendota Lutheran Home
500 6th Street, Mendota IL 61342 · (815) 539-7439 · 40.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Jun 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Mendota, Illinois, Mendota Lutheran Home is the sole option we were able to find in this city. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a solid nursing home. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. One of the highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A-. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Roughly one quarter of that care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures beat out the national average. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we awarded this facility a B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher grades. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is typically a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. 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. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. It performed decently in this area, with 45.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a major disappointment. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. These scores were notably more favorable than some of its other data points in this category. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mendota Lutheran Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better