West Suburban Hospital Med Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on our third area, this nursing home was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in this area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. It does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category we graded, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up an elite report card. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.