Vermillion Convalescent Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also gave this facility a favorable score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best area is its short-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's weakest category is nursing, which is the last area we assessed. It received an F in this category. Despite some acceptable scores in other areas, this grade is still of a concern so we would like to to make sure you are aware. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This place provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.