Red Bud Regional Care

Red Bud Regional Care is an average-sized facility located in Red Bud, Illinois. With an overall grade of A-, this facility is one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top quarter of all facilities in the nation. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its long-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.38989 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is more than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. Although this turned out to be its worst category rating, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 21.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.