Continental Nursing & Rehab Center
5336 North Western Avenue, Chicago IL 60625 · (773) 271-5600 · 78.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Continental Nursing & Rehab Center looks like it is one of a list of 84 facilities located in Chicago, Illinois. The city has far more options to choose from compared to most areas in the country. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. Based on our assessment, this facility is not a fit for any prospective resident. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 208 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although this place's overall score was terrible, it actually fared pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home excelled in the category of nursing, where it earned a grade of C. Few places fared better in this category. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not an impressive grade. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find this nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 26.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was long-term care. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 49.709866 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. We were stunned with its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.78 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is definitely a concerning figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Continental Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High levels of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better