Swansea Rehab Health Care

Swansea Rehab Health Care is one of eight available facilities in Belleville, Illinois. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a very poor facility. While the city grade in Belleville which is also just a D, you still should be able to do better. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

We just couldn't find anything good to say about this place. It received just a D in the area of long-term care. Unfortunately, this was its best category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 98.130844 percent of its residents, which is an above average figure. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was far less impressive. Here we found that this facility had 2.37 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a concerning rate.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. The nursing score is based on many datapoints. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility provided a meager 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. Our inspection grades factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. If you find severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally a bad sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 38 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The last category we rated is short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that area. Short-term care ratings are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score in this range in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this place was well below average in many staffing metrics we focus on. The facility offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 27.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.