City View Multicare Center

City View Multicare Center is a very-large nursing home located in Cicero, Illinois. This facility was given an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Cicero. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

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. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. 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.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a B- for its long-term care grade, which is not a bad grade. In crafting these long-term care ratings, we assess the facility's personal care services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.035866 percent of its residents. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.73 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home is not too far off the national average.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 1.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place was above average in two of the major areas we considered, with good scores for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are usually good indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

The last area we assessed is short-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in this area. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 16.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.