Addison Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient 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.

Unfortunately, this facility's second most favorable score was short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Based on its poor grade in this area, we were not surprised to discover this place provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we graded is nursing. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. There are a variety of criteria within this category. Many of these subcategories reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area.