Park View Rehab Center

Park View Rehab Center is in Chicago, Illinois. This city is among the largest metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 2,680,484 people. Our grading system was not favorable to this facility, as it received an overall rating of F. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

In our next category, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 95.06173 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility fared much worse with 3.24 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is nearly twice the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its weak rating in this category, we were not stunned to learn this nursing home provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 12.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This facility was given an abysmal grade of F in this category. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This place provided only 2.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure.