Landmark of Des Plaines Rehab

Unfortunately, we didn't have any positive things to say about this nursing home's overall score or its category grades. However, with just a D in this category, it still performed badly. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it received just a D for its inspection grade, which was unfortunately its second best grade. Our inspection ratings factor in many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular facility was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically suggests that a facility'sbad track record spanned multiple years.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home's was given a bottom of the barrel long-term care grade where it received a lowly F. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this facility administered the vaccine to only 78.34275 percent of its patients, which is a bit of a concern. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.

The last category we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility received a poor grade in this area as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this place provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 2.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.