Rosewood Care Center of Edwardsville

Although we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we want to point out its much more favorable nursing grade this year. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this category, which was much better than its overall rating. The nursing category assesses several components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an impressive metric which typically leads to quality care. Lastly, this place also performed very well in most of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, it had a low number of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facilities next best area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. In calculating our long-term care grades, we analyze the personal care received by the nursing home's patients. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as impressive as its nursing hours. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 57.08502 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement in this area next year. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.25 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.

Sadly, this nursing home only received a D for its short-term care grade, which is not one of our better scores. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility did not fare well here either. We found that just 45.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was below the national average.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received an F here. Since this data is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this category. When a place has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines amounting to over $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.