Norridge Gardens
7001 West Cullom, Chicago IL 60634 · (708) 457-0700 · 87.84% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Norridge Gardens is a nursing home located in Chicago, Illinois which has 2,680,484 people. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack grade. Even in a city featuring 84 nursing homes, this one looks like a respectable choice. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 292 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an A-. This is a much better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a favorable score in short-term care. This facility received a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. Short-term care ratings are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. It performed decently in this area, with 46.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding 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 good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. We awarded this facility a D for our long-term care category, making this the nursing home's least impressive grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 86.9773 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was also disappointing. We found that this facility had 2.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Norridge Gardens Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better