ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West) is a large non-profit facility located in Palos Heights, Illinois. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is a very strong rating. You really can't do any better than this nursing home. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West)
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Grade: A-minus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A
On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home excelled at short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A for that category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Grade: A-minus
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents more often.
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-minus
Tallying another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B-minus
The final category we rated is long-term care. This facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade this year, with a grade of B-. Although this is not quite as strong as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable rating in that category. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.35683 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West) Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: B-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: A+
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: C
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from UTI's. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: D
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: B
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 30.45% of Patients
This is the percent of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B-plus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 87.4% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: A
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 13.9% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: B-plus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 17.56% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 1.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: B
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 11.82 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: B
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Palos Heights West), 71.65% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Palos Heights, IL
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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