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New Athens Home for the Aged

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Updated Nov 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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203 South Johnson Street,
New Athens IL 62264

(618) 475-2550

61.32% estimated occupancy 1

New Athens Home for the Aged is a small non-profit nursing home located in New Athens, Illinois. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. At the end of the day, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Although we graded this facility incredibly unfavorably overall, it surprisingly received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is more often than not a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

This facility really excelled in nursing, where it earned an B-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Our next area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received an F. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 81.96722 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly below the national average. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

Moving on our last category of inspections, this facility received an F here. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We would scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had 2 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this facility received large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This typically means that a facility's bad track record spanned several years.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

New Athens Home for the Aged Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 18.57% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 5.74% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients who experienced a fall resulting in major injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 3.57% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients which were given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 6.9% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 83.15% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 14.74% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 9.5% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In New Athens Home for the Aged, 9.5% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Nearby Hospitals

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  • Metro-East Services IncAcute Care Hospitals 17.27 miles away1404 Cross Street O Fallon Illinois 62269Voluntary non-profit - Private(618) 607-1000
  • Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.46 miles away4500 Memorial Drive Belleville Illinois 62226Voluntary non-profit - Private(618) 233-7750

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Red Bud Dialysis9.64 miles away1500 E Market St Lot 4 Red Bud Illinois 62278Dialysis Stations: 8 (618) 282-3444
  • Davita - Shiloh Dialysis17.08 miles away1095 North Green Mount Rd Belleville Illinois 62221CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (618) 628-1108
  • Total Renal Care, Inc.17.24 miles away1941 Frank Scott Parkway East, Suite B O Fallon Illinois 62269Dialysis Stations: 12 (618) 622-0592
  • Davita - Metro East Dialysis17.37 miles away5105 West Main St. Belleville Illinois 62226CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (618) 233-9018
  • Fkc - Belleville18.19 miles away6525 W Main Street Belleville Illinois 62223Dialysis Stations: 12 (618) 398-8181
  • Fmc - Regency Park18.65 miles away124 Regency Park Drive O Fallon Illinois 62269CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (618) 622-0634