Illinois

• Illinois lost more footing in the national nursing home rankings since the last reporting period, dropping to No. 49 from No. 44.
• Illinois was the only state, besides Texas, that scored below average grades in every staffing and enforcement measure.
• Illinois ranks as the third worst nursing home state for the third consecutive reporting period.
• Sufficient nursing personnel remained a problem for the Land of Lincoln, more than 70 percent of nursing homes had middling to below average professional nursing levels.
• Ninety-seven percent of Illinois nursing homes were cited one or more deficiencies, worsening statistically in consecutive report cards.
• Illinois’s percentage of nursing homes with severe deficiencies climbed to its highest rate in any report, nearly 30 percent were cited for actual harm or immediate jeopardy to residents.
• Illinois nursing home care scrapes the bottom of the Central Plains Region.

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