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Tower Hill Healthcare Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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759 Kane Street,
South Elgin IL 60177

64.02% estimated occupancy 1

Tower Hill Healthcare Center is one of just a couple available facilities located in South Elgin, Illinois. Our grading scheme was not kind to this facility, as it received an overall score of F. In our view, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Speech Therapy
  • Amputee Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B

Although this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

Grade: C

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. When computing our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provides only 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care rating. This is not a score to write home about. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility gave the vaccine to only 90.56975 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The final area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this nursing home received a very poor grade in this area as well. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is definitely a major disappointment. Our short-term care scores are presumably more meaningful for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Tower Hill Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 4.24% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 1.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 0.62% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 29.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 16.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This gauges the percent of long-term patients that are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 82.47% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some would argue that this is a measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 92.07% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 12.94% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 17.39% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 17.39% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 16.36% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Tower Hill Healthcare Center, 80.81% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=145795