Rock Falls Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than its overall grade. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's short-term care score appears to be one of its respectable features. The facility was awarded a B- in this area. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did well in this area.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this area. Even with a few solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to draw your attention to it. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 97.77778 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.