ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Libertyville)

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.20949 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.