Molena Health & Rehab

This place received rock bottom grades in our analysis. Most alarmingly, it received an F for its inspection grade. Typically, this means we found some red flags on the facility's government inspections. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 5 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

We also wanted to note this nursing home's low-end short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. Our short-term care scores are probably most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.8 percent of its patients returning home.

The third area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home's received a low-end long-term care score where it was given an F. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.88889 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The next area we scored is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. Our nursing grade assesses many factors, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.