All 3 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Oak Park,
side by side on the things that separate them: how many nursing hours each resident gets, how much of the
staff leaves each year, and what inspectors found on their last visit.
West Suburban Medical Center runs a small 50-bed unit in Oak Park, and its inspection record is its strongest suit, a four-star health inspection score and a clean abuse history, with the most recent survey completed in October 2024. But the staffing score tells a different story. One star means this home sits well below what CMS considers adequate on direct care hours, and that gap matters more than anything else here. Fourteen deficiencies on record, one serious enough to reach harm or jeopardy level, suggest the problems are more about day-to-day care capacity than outright neglect. Quality measures look strong at five stars, though those are largely self-reported. For-profit corporate ownership is worth noting when weighing where the money goes.
Berkeley Nursing & Rehab Center runs on 2.53 nursing hours per resident per day, roughly a third below the national average, and weekends dip another 10% under its own weekday staffing. For a 72-bed home, that thin margin matters, 35 deficiencies sit on the current record, four of them serious enough to involve harm or jeopardy, plus one tied to abuse, and CMS has issued 25 fines totaling $252,245. The ownership is for-profit and individually held, and turnover at 39.6% actually beats the national rate, so the problem isn't retention so much as how few hands are scheduled. The last inspection was April 2025, and the health inspection rating of 4/5 is genuinely decent, it's the staffing side that drags everything down.
Oak Park Oasis runs 204 beds under for-profit partnership ownership, and the staffing numbers are the first thing that stand out. At 2.98 nurse hours per resident day, it sits roughly 23% under the national average of 3.86, and weekends drop about another 15% below its own weekday levels, so coverage is thinnest exactly when families tend to visit. Turnover at 32.1% is actually better than the national 45.8%, which suggests the problem isn't retention so much as how many hands are scheduled. The inspection record is harder to explain away: 52 deficiencies, including five at harm or jeopardy level and six tied to abuse, plus seven fines totaling $244,182. The most recent inspection was October 2024.