Little Village Nrsg & Rhb Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This facility also didn't fare poorly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C in that category, which wound up being among its higher scores. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we analyze the personal care offered to the nursing home's patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 57.009346 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we graded was short-term care, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.