Glencrest Healthcr & Rehab Center

Glencrest Healthcr & Rehab Center is a nursing home in Chicago, Illinois which has a total of 2,680,484 people. Featuring an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. Chicago received a city grade of C, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it is able to raise its standard of care going forward.

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that area with a B+. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly trained nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours more in computing our nursing scores. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this subcategory. Avoiding major falls is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be prevented if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This facility also didn't perform terribly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a C in that category, which is among its more respectable scores. Short-term care ratings are vital for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 42.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home, which is below average.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 23.735954 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 4.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad due to it having more complicated patients.