Veracare Burbank
5400 West 87th Street, Burbank IL 60459 · (708) 423-1200 · 49.57% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Veracare Burbank is a large facility located in Burbank, Illinois. With a really poor overall grade of F, this nursing home 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 Burbank. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 163 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall score was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Remarkably, this facility was awarded a favorable short-term care grade in our assessment also. We gave it a grade of B in that category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Illinois in this area with 61.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. We do not think quantity of care was the reason for this nursing home's poor nursing grade. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place actually surpassed the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was above the national average in both of these statistics.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. This facility's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than some of the other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours data. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 69.38776 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Lastly, we were stunned by the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place fared poorly with 8.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, this statistic is more than double the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Veracare Burbank Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better