Landmark of Des Plaines Rehab
9300 Ballard Road, Des Plaines IL 60016 · (847) 294-2300 · 62.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Landmark of Des Plaines Rehab is located in Des Plaines, Illinois. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't a good fit for anyone. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 231 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our more favorable grades in that category with a B. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
Surprisingly, we gave this facility a C for our short-term care grade, which is not too bad of a score. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. It outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 53.3 percent of its residents returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility averaged just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this area. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the last area, this nursing home really didn't fare well in this area either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 12.576067 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than average. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 3.27 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't as bad due to it having some more complex patients. This was its best feature in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Landmark of Des Plaines Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which have sustained a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression. Some argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better