Walker Nursing Home

Walker Nursing Home is a nursing home located in Virginia, Illinois, which has 2,426 people. Featuring an overall rating of D, this is a well below average nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Virginia. The best thing we can really say about this place is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about its category grades can be found below.

While this facility's overall score is not a highlight, it actually received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is not bad. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. The nursing category consists of a handful of datapoints, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The third area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this category. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to our final area, this facility was awarded a C in short-term care, which is an acceptable rating. Our short-term care ratings are important for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 38.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.