Greek American Rehab Care Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Wheeling, Illinois. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Wheeling. This facility also received strong scores in all four of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Greek American Rehab Care Center
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we assessed was nursing. In this area, we gave this nursing home an above average grade of B. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Greek American Rehab Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 6.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 5.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 1.13% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term care residents which sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 20.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 18.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 96.21% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 99.5% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 10.64% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 15.08% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 15.08% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 10.57% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Greek American Rehab Care Center, 89.42% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Northwest Community Hospital 1Acute Care Hospitals 6.72 miles away800 W Central Road Arlington Heights Illinois 60005Voluntary non-profit - Private(847) 618-1000
- Advocate Lutheran General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.82 miles away1775 Dempster St Park Ridge Illinois 60068Voluntary non-profit - Church(847) 723-2210
- Northwestern Lake Forest HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.41 miles away1000 N Westmoreland Road Lake Forest Illinois 60045Voluntary non-profit - Other(847) 234-5600
- Advocate Condell Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.36 miles away801 S Milwaukee Ave Libertyville Illinois 60048Voluntary non-profit - Private(847) 362-2900
- Alexian Brothers Medical Center 1Acute Care Hospitals 10.99 miles away800 W Biesterfield Rd Elk Grove Village Illinois 60007Voluntary non-profit - Church(847) 437-5500
- Presence Resurrection Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.8 miles away7435 W Talcott Avenue Chicago Illinois 60631Voluntary non-profit - Church(773) 774-8000
- Northshore University Healthsystem Evanston HospAcute Care Hospitals 12.83 miles away2650 Ridge Ave Evanston Illinois 60201Voluntary non-profit - Other(847) 432-8000
- St Alexius Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.46 miles away1555 N Barrington Rd Hoffman Estate Illinois 60169Voluntary non-profit - Church(847) 843-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Buffalo Grove Dialysis3.81 miles away1291 West Dundee Road Buffalo Grove Illinois 60089CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (847) 253-9400
- Fmc - Deerfield Dialysis Center3.82 miles away405 Lake Cook Rd. Suite a13 Deerfield Illinois 60015Dialysis Stations: 12 (847) 559-0374
- Fmc - Highland5.37 miles away1657 Old Skokie Road Highland Park Illinois 60035Dialysis Stations: 20 (847) 579-0675
- Glen Dialysis5.54 miles away2601 Compass Road Suite 145 Glenview Illinois 60026Dialysis Stations: 16 (847) 657-7574
- Fmc - Glenview Dialysis Center5.73 miles away4248 Commercial Way Glenview Illinois 60025CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (847) 824-2006
- Fmc - Palatine Dialysis Center5.88 miles away691 East Dundee Road Palatine Illinois 60074CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (847) 963-4299
- Davita - Lake County Dialysis Services Inc6.16 miles away565 Lakeview Pkwy Ste 176 Vernon Hills Illinois 60061CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (847) 918-0592
- Fmc - Rolling Meadows6.59 miles away4180 Winnetka Ave. Rolling Meadows Illinois 60008CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (847) 394-6250