South Suburban Rehab Center

South Suburban Rehab Center is a very-large nursing home located in Homewood, Illinois. This facility was given an overall rating of F. This place is really as bad as it gets. Nevertheless, this facility did just fine in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place was above average in two of the major statistics we considered, with good marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

In addition, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the area of short-term care. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 41.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last category we looked at is long-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated just 81.17284 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't as bad due to it having some more complex patients. This is its best score in this category