Harmony Nursing & Rehab Center

Located in Chicago, Illinois, Harmony Nursing & Rehab Center is one of 84 facilities here. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a subpar nursing home. As far as we can see, we would struggle to recommend this facility. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we did not rate this facility highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This facility was awarded its next best category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 41.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Nursing grades are tied to quantity of nursing care available. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we scored is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is a poor grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 61.989346 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place fared poorly with 3 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is nearly twice the national average.