Park Place Christian Community

Park Place Christian Community is one of four nursing homes located in Elmhurst, Illinois. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most elite facilities we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system requires superb scores across the board. In fact, this is the number one rated nursing home in Illinois, which is an incredible achievement. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which look to be equally strong as its overall score.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded several A+ category scores. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides roughly one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we assessed. This is certainly a great sign. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 71.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the nation when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home also was given an A+ long-term care rating, leaving it as one of just a handful of facilities to be given straight A+'s. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of assessing the elite level of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination record. By way of example, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.87234 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.