The Parc at Joliet

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our short-term care rating. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an B-. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received a lowly F for its inspection rating. This is a very important category. Grades in this range typically point to red flags on the facility's inspections. For places with poor inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we would like to point out that this place received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically indicates that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility received a bottom of the barrel score in this area as well. It received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 30.120481 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.