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West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center

West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center, 311 Edgewater Drive, Bloomingdale, Illinois 60108

West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center has an overall rating of much below average. The facility received one star out of five in this category. West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is located in Bloomingdale, Illinois, which is a western suburb to the City of Chicago lying approximately 28.6 miles from the center of the City of Chicago. The facility has 259 certified beds that participates in both Medicare and Medicaid. It is not in a Continuing Care Retirement Community. West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center a resident council only.

Resident and family council can facilitate open communications with the facility’s staff. The law requires nursing homes to allow councils to be set up by residents or their families. Importantly, if a nursing home does not have a resident or a family council, the resident or a family member should ask the nursing home administrator why that is the case. Where there is no resident or family council, the resident is encouraged to speak with the council president to get a sense of how the nursing home has performed on issues raised in the past. The ownership of West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is a for profit corporation. The legal business name is West Suburban Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC.

The Illinois Department of Health and Human Services regularly inspects Illinois nursing homes on average every 18 months. The last full report filed for West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center was made on November 17, 2016. The total number of health citations was 20. The average number of health citations in Illinois is 9.9. The average number of health citations in the U.S. is 7.2. In addition to the regularly set health inspections, complaint inspections can occur when a resident, a loved one or someone else makes a complaint with the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services. In the case of West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center, three separate full reports were on file for complaint inspections between October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. The number of complaints for this facility in the past three years that resulted in a citation were 11. There was one instance where the facility reported an issue resulting in a citation in the past three years. In Illinois, as elsewhere, nursing homes are certified by Medicare and Medicaid and are inspected every year. Healthcare professionals inspect each nursing home and look for any health and safety citations. The health inspection rating for West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is much below average receiving one star. The health inspection star rating is based on the three most recent nursing home inspections.

The overall staffing rating at West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is below average. The total number of licensed nurse staff hours per resident per day at West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is 1 hour and 27 minutes compared to 1 hour and 33 minutes for the Illinois average. The registered nurse hours per resident per day at the facility was 55 minutes. The Illinois average is 56 minutes with the national average being 50 minutes. The registered nurse staffing rating for West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center is above average receiving four stars out of five. Registered nurses are licensed healthcare professionals who are responsible for the coordination, management and overall delivery of care to the residents. Some nursing home residents who are sicker than others may require a greater level of care. It is obvious that the greater number of registered nurse staff personal at any nursing home is better able to meet the need of a facility’s resident.

Illinois nursing homes that are certified by Medicare and Medicaid regularly report clinical information for each of their residents to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS gives nursing homes a quality of resident care star rating based on performance on 16 different measures. These measures reflect how well a nursing home cares for its residents. These listings are based on two groups which are short-stay residents who spend 100 days or less in a nursing home and long-stay residents who spend over 100 days in a nursing home.

West Suburban Nursing & Rehab Center did not receive any nursing home fines in the last 3 years. It was noted that there was neither a federal fine nor an Illinois state fine during that 3-year period.

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