West Chicago Terrace Nursing Home

While we gave this nursing home a bad overall rating, we gave it a somewhat respectable score in the category of inspections, where we gave it a grade of B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B-. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's third most favorable area is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.86685 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.