Joliet Terrace

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this place also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing scores are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more critical for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was given a grade of C in long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable grade. Long-term care scores are vital for people requiring personal care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.