West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. This place's best category is nursing, but even there it received just a D. Our nursing score is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. For nursing homes with poor inspection ratings, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a bad performance spanned more than one year.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home's was given an unfortunate long-term care grade where it was given an F. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 74.01216 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than average. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The last category we graded was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess 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 goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Given its weak grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn this facility provides far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.