West Chicago Terrace Nursing Home

Although this place's overall grade is not a highlight, it actually received a somewhat respectable grade in the category of inspections. We awarded it a grade of B- for this area, which is not bad. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

The next area we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this area. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is more often than not a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The key is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we analyzed was long-term care. For this category, we awarded this facility a C. In our long-term care score, we assess the sheer quantity of care provided by a facility, as well as a handful of quality statistics. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 99.43662 percent of its patients, which is a very solid statistic. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.