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Mercy Circle

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  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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3659 West 99th Street,
Chicago IL 60655

(773) 253-3600

94.78% estimated occupancy 1

Mercy Circle is in Chicago, Illinois, which features more than 25 nursing homes. With an overall score of A, we rated this facility to be one of the top five nursing homes in the city. Overall grades in this range are a reliable indicator of an elite nursing home. At the end of the day, this facility looks like a great choice for most people. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary report card is its short-term care grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Illinois Awards 2020

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Top Nursing Home in Illinois Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In computing these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility fared very well in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

In the last category we rated, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A profile. The nursing score is based on quite a few factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving patients more often.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Mercy Circle Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Mercy Circle, 3.13% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Mercy Circle, 15% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Mercy Circle, 2.7% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Mercy Circle, 10% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Mercy Circle, 11.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Mercy Circle, 0% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Mercy Circle, 100% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Mercy Circle, 23.53% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Mercy Circle, 18.01% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is critical to residents' mental and physical health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Mercy Circle, 18.01% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Mercy Circle, 2.99% of Patients

This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Mercy Circle, 66.77% of Resident

This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Chicago, IL

  • Overall Rating has a grade of D
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of C
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

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