Lexington of Chicago Ridge

Lexington of Chicago Ridge is one of just a few facilities located in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is frequently a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 64.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. When computing our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a relatively low figure. Nevertheless, more than a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care, which we weight more heavily in our nursing grades. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

Turning to our final category, this facility really did not perform well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's weakest category grade. Facilities that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 90.99099 percent of its residents, which is slightly below what we were hoping for. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this facility had 2.39 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.