Chicago Ridge Nursing Center is a very-large facility in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Chicago Ridge. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss short-term care in the next section.
Chicago Ridge Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Note: Chicago Ridge Nursing Center 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
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Oncology Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We weren't high on this nursing home's overall grade or its category grades. We gave it just a D for our short-term care rating and that turned out to be its best score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection score where it received a lowly F. This generally means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
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Long-term Care Quality
Our next category we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home received an F. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 37.55334 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chicago Ridge Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used for several medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 30.45% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 87.4% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 13.9% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 17.56% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 11.82 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Chicago Ridge Nursing Center, 71.65% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Palos Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.37 miles away12251 South 80th Avenue Palos Heights Illinois 60463Voluntary non-profit - Private(708) 923-4000
- Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.56 miles away4440 W 95th Street Oak Lawn Illinois 60453Voluntary non-profit - Church(708) 684-8000
- Little Company of Mary HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.53 miles away2800 W 95th St Evergreen Park Illinois 60805Voluntary non-profit - Other(708) 422-6200
- Holy Cross HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.24 miles away2701 W 68th Street Chicago Illinois 60629Voluntary non-profit - Private(773) 884-9000
- Adventist La Grange Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.28 miles away5101 S Willow Springs Rd La Grange Illinois 60525Voluntary non-profit - Church(708) 352-1200
- Roseland Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.8 miles away45 W 111th Street Chicago Illinois 60628Voluntary non-profit - Other(773) 995-3000
- Macneal HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.18 miles away3249 South Oak Park Avenue Berwyn Illinois 60402Proprietary(708) 783-9100
- Ingalls Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.5 miles away1 Ingalls Drive Harvey Illinois 60426Voluntary non-profit - Private(708) 333-2300
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Chicago Ridge Dialysis0.84 miles away10511 S. Harlem Ave. Chicago Ridge Illinois 60415Dialysis Stations: 16 (708) 361-2863
- Usrc - Hickory Hills Dialysis1.63 miles away9640 S. Roberts Road Suite B-3a Hickory Hills Illinois 60457Dialysis Stations: 13 (708) 459-9598
- Davita - Stony Creek Dialysis1.7 miles away6246 W 95th St Oak Lawn Illinois 60453CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (708) 233-9027
- Motte Dialysis2.93 miles away5020 W. 95th Street Oak Lawn Illinois 60453Dialysis Stations: 12 (615) 238-3136
- Fmc - Alsip Dialysis Center3.29 miles away12250 S Cicero Ste 105 Alsip Illinois 60803CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (708) 389-0955
- Dcc - Oak Lawn3.41 miles away9115 S Cicero Ave, Suite 300 Oak Lawn Illinois 60453Dialysis Stations: 11 (708) 907-3066
- Davita - Alsip Home Training3.99 miles away11500 S. Pulaski Road Alsip Illinois 60803Dialysis Stations: 4 (708) 385-7145
- Davita Ford City Dialysis4.19 miles away8159 S. Cicero Ave Chicago Illinois 60652Dialysis Stations: 12 (773) 585-5504