The Whitehall North
300 Waukegan Road, Deerfield IL 60015 · (847) 945-4600 · 75.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Whitehall North is a large facility in Deerfield, Illinois. After receiving an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the most elite nursing homes we looked at. In fact, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best facilities in Illinois. This is an impressive accomplishment in a state with a long list of high-end facilities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's stellar profile is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this place provides approximately 1.5 times as many hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. This is an encouraging sign. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 63.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received a virtually flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. This is one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing score weighs a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This place provided 5.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. On top of providing high levels of care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility Illinois. Preventing major falls is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of C. This actually ended up being this facility's weakest category. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals needing more traditional assistance related to personal care. On top of impressive nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination data is fairly strong also. In fact, it vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.79 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Whitehall North Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
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 tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
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 indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better