Greek American Rehab Care Center

Greek American Rehab Care Center, 220 North First Street, Wheeling, Illinois 60090

The overall rating of Greek American Rehab Care Center is average. The facility has 188 certified beds that participates in both Medicare and Medicaid. The facility is located 29.2 miles from the center City of Chicago. Wheeling is a northwestern suburb to the City of Chicago. Greek American Rehab Care Center is not within a Continuing Care Retirement Community. A Continuing Care Retirement Community offers multiple housing options and levels of care. This is an important asset in that residents may move from one level of care to another based on their medical needs while still remaining in the same nursing home. Greek American Rehab Care Center has a resident council only. The ownership of Greek American Rehab Care Center is a for non-profit corporation that operates under the legal business name Greek American Rehabilitation and Care Centre, Inc.

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 Illinois Department of Health and Human Services regularly inspects Illinois nursing homes on average every 18 months. The health inspection rating for Greek American Rehab Care Center is average. The most recent standard health inspection was conducted with a full report on February 10, 2017. The total number of health citations made with this health inspection was 2. The average number of health citations in Illinois following a standard health inspection is 9. The average number of health citations following a health inspection in the U.S. is 7.2. There were no complaint inspections filed between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017 for this facility. The number of times in the past three years that resulted in a citation was 5.

The staffing rating for Greek American Rehab Care Center is average. The total number of licensed nurse staff hours per resident per day at Greek American Rehab Care Center is 1 hours and 22 minutes. The Illinois average in this category is 1 hour and 33 minutes and the national average being 1 hour and 41 minutes. The registered nurse hours per resident per day at the facility was 59 minutes compared to 56 minutes for Illinois and 50 minutes for the U.S. The physical therapy staff hours per resident per day at this facility is 4 minutes. The Illinois and national averages are both 6 minutes for physical therapy staff hours per resident per day. The registered nurse staffing rating for Greek American Rehab Care Center is much above average.

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.

21% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s short-stay residents were re-hospitalized after a nursing home admission. The Illinois average is 22.5% with the national average being 21.1% in this category. 13.4% of the facility’s short-stay residents had an outpatient emergency department visit while the Illinois average is 12.1%, with the national average being 11.9%. 56.6% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s short-stay residents were successfully discharged to the community. This percentage was higher than the Illinois average that stands at 53.8%. 2.5% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s short-stay residents reported moderate to severe pain. The Illinois and national averages are both substantially higher at 11.5% and 14.1%, respectively.

14.8% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s long-stay residents had a worsened ability to move independently after discharge compared to 17.2% for the Illinois average and 18.3% for the U.S. average. 11.1% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s long-stay residents who had an increased need for help with daily activities was lower than the Illinois and national averages in this category which were 14.4% and 15%, respectively. 44.5% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s long-stay residents have symptoms of depression. That percentage is significantly higher than both the Illinois and national averages which stand at 18.8% and 5%, respectively in this category. 99% of Greek American Rehab Care Center’s long-stay residents received the needed flu shot for the current flu season. This percentage was higher than both the Illinois and national averages in this category.

Greek American Rehab Care 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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