Bria of Chicago Heights is an average-sized nursing home in Chicago Heights, Illinois. This is a subpar nursing home, with an overall grade of D. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Chicago Heights. The city has just two other nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Bria of Chicago Heights
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Note: Bria of Chicago Heights has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Hemodialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we would like to note its decent health inspections in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable score of B- in this area. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.
Nurse Quality
We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility received its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In determining these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a grade of just D in our long-term care category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.01588 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bria of Chicago Heights Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents who experienced falls which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric could also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 30.45% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 87.4% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 13.9% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 17.56% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bria of Chicago Heights, 11.82 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Nearby Hospitals
- Advocate South Suburban HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.9 miles away17800 S Kedzie Ave Hazel Crest Illinois 60429Voluntary non-profit - Church(708) 799-8000
- Franciscan Health DyerAcute Care Hospitals 6.02 miles away24 Joliet St Dyer Indiana 46311Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 865-2141
- Franciscan Health MunsterAcute Care Hospitals 7.36 miles away701 Superior Ave Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 922-4200
- Ingalls Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.01 miles away1 Ingalls Drive Harvey Illinois 60426Voluntary non-profit - Private(708) 333-2300
- Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.05 miles away901 Macarthur Blvd Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 836-1600
- Franciscan Health HammondAcute Care Hospitals 10.51 miles away5454 Hohman Ave Hammond Indiana 46320Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 932-2300
- Roseland Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.95 miles away45 W 111th Street Chicago Illinois 60628Voluntary non-profit - Other(773) 995-3000
- St Catherine Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 14.02 miles away4321 Fir St East Chicago Indiana 46312Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 392-7004
Nearby Dialysis
- Fkc - Chicago Heights0.55 miles away15 E Independence Drive Chicago Heights Illinois 60411Dialysis Stations: 12 (708) 754-5898
- Fmc - Steger Dialysis1.72 miles away219 E. 34th Street Steger Illinois 60475Dialysis Stations: 12 (708) 754-3770
- Davita - Chicago Heights Dialysis2.06 miles away177 B West Joe Orr Rd Chicago Heights Illinois 60411CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (708) 755-9000
- Davita - Olympia Fields Dialysis Center3.22 miles away4557 B West Lincoln Highway Matteson Illinois 60443CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (708) 503-1112
- Fmc - South Suburban3.24 miles away2609 W Lincoln Hwy Olympia Fields Illinois 60461CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (708) 747-0050
- Home Dialysis Services Olympia Fields LLC3.77 miles away3214 Vollmer Rd Olympia Fields Illinois 60461Dialysis Stations: 1 (708) 898-0564
- Dcc - Olympia Fields3.8 miles away3322 Vollmer Rd. Suite C Olympia Fields Illinois 60461Dialysis Stations: 11 (708) 964-2250
- Davita - Flossmoor Home3.99 miles away19720 S Governors Hwy Flossmoor Illinois 60422Dialysis Stations: 4 (708) 799-7239