Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
502 North State Street,
Franklin Grove IL 61031
64.54% estimated occupancy 1
Franklin Grove Living and Rehab is a large non-profit nursing home located in Franklin Grove, Illinois. This nursing home is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of B-. You can certainly do worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's profile is its exemplary inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.
To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
We also gave this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.38461 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more often.
This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this area, we gave this facility a grade of just D. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. In this nursing home's case, we found that it offers fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility a bit in this area as well, with just 46.7 percent of its residents returning home. This was below average.
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 8.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. More frequent bathing limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 18.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used to treat several conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 19.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 29.52% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 87.71% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 14.14% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 19.35% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 1.5 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to the physical health of residents.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 19.35 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 11.42 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
In Franklin Grove Living and Rehab, 71.34% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
