Manorcare of Arlington Heights
715 West Central Road, Arlington Heights IL 60005 · (847) 392-2020 · 62.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Arlington Heights, Illinois, Manorcare of Arlington Heights is one of five facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. We were pleased to find out that this was in line with the other facilities in Arlington Heights, which is one of the better cities in Illinois to find a nursing home. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 151 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Other
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country with 68.1 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Approximately a quarter of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled nurses. This is an impressive percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by skilled nurses more in computing our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a poor grade. We wouldn't necessarily disqualify a nursing home as a result of one poor category though. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 93.085106 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.81 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Manorcare of Arlington Heights Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better