Heritage Health-Elgin
355 Raymond Street, Elgin IL 60120 · (847) 697-6636 · 80.85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Heritage Health-Elgin is one of eight nursing homes located in Elgin, Illinois. Featuring an overall score of B+, this looks like a strong nursing home. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 94 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that category. There are numerous factors included in this area. Most of the datapoints are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 3.3 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 metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The third category we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care score, with a B+ in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.09 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we scored is short-term care. This nursing home received a favorable short-term care rating in our assessment, with a B-. Even though this isn't as elite as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless an acceptable rating in that area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 35.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure is below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Health-Elgin Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better