Frankfort Terrace Nursing Center
40 North Smith, Frankfort IL 60423 · (815) 469-3156 · 82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Frankfort Terrace Nursing Center is an average-sized facility located in Frankfort, Illinois. With an overall score of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our analysis, this facility ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a positive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a B in this area, which is one of our better. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.181816 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 1.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our final area, we awarded this facility a D in short-term care. This was the facility's worst category score. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this place provided less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Frankfort Terrace Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better