Forest View Rehab & Nursing Center
535 South Elm, Itasca IL 60143 · (630) 773-9416 · 84.72% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Forest View Rehab & Nursing Center is a large nursing home located in Itasca, Illinois. This nursing home was given an F, which is definitely concerning in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 144 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility only received a D for its long-term care grade, which turns out to be one of its more respectable category scores. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 40.517242 percent of its residents, which is several points lower than we expected. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. Short-term care scores are critical for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 43.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we rated is nursing. It received an F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had really bad scores in several of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Forest View Rehab & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better