Providence Downers Grove
3450 Saratoga Avenue, Downers Grove IL 60515 · (630) 969-2900 · 53.72% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Providence Downers Grove is in Downers Grove, Illinois. The city has 56,587 people. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. This facility definitely has plenty going for it. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 145 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for short-term care. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day. About one-fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the most skilled levels of nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by skilled nurses more in determining our nursing ratings. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we analyzed is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You should not necessarily dismiss a facility as a result of a single concerning score though. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. 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. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.061035 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 1.73 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad due to it having some more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Providence Downers Grove Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who had UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better