White Oak Rehabilitation & Hcc

White Oak Rehabilitation & Hcc is one of four available facilities located in Mount Vernon, Illinois. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. In our view, this facility would be a good fit for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's report card was is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next most favorable category turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it received a B-. Long-term care grades are used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.26471 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of patients.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure. Finally, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we assessed was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in that area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 31.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.