Seminary Village

One of the reasons this place is a quality nursing home is that it earned an impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded it an A-. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility performed well in the area of short-term care. As a result, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most favorable grades. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a fair assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

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+. Nursing ratings are largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Illinois in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents more often.

This facility's least impressive category was long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 83.71041 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.