Frankfort Terrace

We also wanted to emphasize that this facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without the deficiency related data for this facility, it was a challenge to fully assess it in terms of this category.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Illinois in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving patients more frequently.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our stronger scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It does not appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In our last area, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B+. This rounded out a first-rate profile. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.