Piatt County Nursing Home

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. This score is more respectable than its overall grade. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This facility's short-term care grade is one of its respectable features. The nursing home received a B- in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is generally a solid measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. With our long-term care grade, we focus more on the amount of services offered by a facility, along with a few qualitative statistics. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.80419 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we looked at was inspections. This grade is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it a score of C in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This facility was assessed 8 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to present an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.