Covenant Hlth Cr Ctr-Northbrk
2155 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook IL 60062 · (847) 480-6350 · 79.01% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Northbrook, Illinois, Covenant Hlth Cr Ctr-Northbrk is one of five available nursing homes in the city. This facility is ranked among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best grades that we offer. Indeed, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as the number one nursing home in Northbrook. As you can find below, this place performed just as well in our category scores. We gave it a straight A report card!
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 102 Beds
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Non profit - Church related
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 77.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Building on its remarkable assessment, this nursing home also was awarded a superb long-term care grade, with a score of A-. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.04743 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
In the final category, we gave this facility an A for our nursing grade. This finished off a very strong profile. We weighed the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Covenant Hlth Cr Ctr-Northbrk Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
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 indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better