South Holland Manor Health & Rehab 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-. We believe that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, but a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We apply more weight to these skilled nursing hours in determining our nursing ratings. Finally, nursing scores also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent short-term care rating in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of B- in that area. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home is above average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in this area with 49.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in this category. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility vaccinated only 60.96774 percent of its residents, which is slightly concerning. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.47 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.