Rochelle Rehab & Health Care Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing score includes a variety of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This nursing home also didn't fare too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- in that area, which happens to be another one of its more favorable scores. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades factor in many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 56.52174 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.