Community Care Center

Community Care Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Chicago, Illinois. Our rating system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. Chicago received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next best score was long-term care. However, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.62805 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. We were far less impressed with the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 3.33 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is nearly double the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. The nursing score consists of quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. With a meager 2.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This facility was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is typically a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Given its abysmal rating in this area, we were not stunned to discover this nursing home offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 19.7 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.