ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Oak Lawn East)

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, with an A- in this area. This really boosted its overall grade. Short-term care grades are generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. The nursing rating includes a variety of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a poor score. This is clearly a significant disappointment. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 58.695652 percent of its patients. This is several points lower than average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.