Taylorville Care Center
600 South Houston, Taylorville IL 62568 · (217) 824-9636 · 67.44% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Taylorville Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Taylorville, Illinois. With an overall grade of C, this appears to be a solid nursing home. This place has some things going for it. The best part of this facility's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was awarded a positive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded them a B+ in that category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.65 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. The nursing grade assesses a handful of datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our last category, this facility didn't perform very well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's poorest grade. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 25.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Taylorville Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who have had a fall leading to major injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term care patients which are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression. Increased rates of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better