The Grove at the Lake
2534 Elim Avenue, Zion IL 60099 · (847) 746-8435 · 66.63% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
The Grove at the Lake is a very-large nursing home located in Zion, Illinois. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Zion. The city has just one other nursing home. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 244 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care score, which ended up being one of its better category grades. In our short-term care category, we try to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This place fared better in this area, with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. There are numerous criteria within this grade. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the major statistics we considered, with good marks for avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are often good indicators of the quality of nursing care available.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home really did not perform very well in this area either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 69.96467 percent of its patients. We were also disappointed with its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.91 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is nearly twice the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Grove at the Lake Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric 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 is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better