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2025 Illinois Veterans' Home Chicago
Mission Statement To provide quality, long-term skilled nursing and domiciliary care to eligible residents.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Provide skilled long-term care to Illinois veterans and their spouses residing at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Chicago.
    1. Provide the number of hours of skilled care to meet the sufficient medical needs of each resident per day.
    2. Decrease Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reportable incidents.
    3. Maintain funded daily census.
  2. Improve efficiency of providing services.
    Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Illinois Veterans' Home Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 2805/2 - 2805/2.06
    Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
    Input Indicators
    Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 18,623.2 $ 15,370.8 $ 23,427.4 $ 12,204.3 $ 8,970.3
    Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 18,623.2 $ 15,370.8 $ 23,427.4 $ 12,204.3 $ 8,970.3
    Average monthly full-time equivalents 180.0 118.0 245.0 123.0 100.0
    Output Indicators
    Average daily census 100.0 55.7 52.5 45.3 25.7
    Direct care staffing level 103.0 76.5 72.5 65.7 37.0
    Number of nursing hours per resident 4.0 6.5 7.0 6.4 6.3
    Number of IDPH reportable incidents 12.0 9.0 3.0 4.0 4.0
    Donations received from service organizations (in dollars) $ 12,000.00 $ 11,250.00 $ 28,000.00 $ 27,751.22 $ 2,100.00
    Volunteer hours 660.0 833.0 564.0 513.0 85.0
    Number of skilled care patient days 36,500 20,395 18,263 16,603 9,375
    Outcome Indicators
    Percentage change in the average daily census 79.53% 22.96% 15.96% 76.25% 60.50%
    Percentage change in IDPH reportable incidents 33.33% 125.00% -25.00% N/A N/A
    Percentage of occupancy 50.00% 28.00% 25.30% 23.00% 13.00%
    Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
    Federal per diem revenues (in thousands) $ 6,960.0 $ 4,263.6 $ 3,527.5 $ 3,206.8 N/A

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