Bria of Palos Hills: A Comprehensive Review

Bria of Palos Hills is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility at 10426 South Roberts Road, Palos Hills, IL 60465. You can reach it at (708) 598-3460. On Medicare's Care Compare the facility is now listed under the name Nexus at Palos, federal provider number (CCN) 145650, but it is the same building at the same address and phone. As of Medicare's June 2026 data release, it holds an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, the lowest of the five bands and a level Medicare labels much below average. The figures below all come from Medicare.gov Care Compare.

At a glance

Medicare Care Compare ratings

Medicare rates every certified nursing home from 1 to 5 stars overall, then splits that score into three parts: a health inspection rating, a staffing rating, and a quality measures rating. Here is where this facility stands.

• Overall rating: 1 out of 5 stars (much below average)
• Health inspection rating: 1 out of 5 stars
• Staffing rating: 1 out of 5 stars
• Quality measures rating: 2 out of 5 stars
• The overall score leans heavily on the health inspection history, so a 1-star inspection result drags the whole rating down. Quality measures, which track clinical outcomes such as falls and pressure ulcers, are the least weak area here at 2 stars.

Nurse staffing

Staffing is one of the facility's weakest areas. It reports about 4.71 total nursing hours per resident per day, including roughly 0.70 hours of registered nurse time. That reported total looks generous next to the rough 3.5 hour benchmark many experts cite. Medicare, though, adjusts staffing for how sick the residents are, and after that acuity adjustment the total falls to about 3.19 hours per resident per day, below the level Medicare expects for this resident mix. That gap is a big reason staffing earns just 1 star.

• Reported total nurse staffing: about 4.71 hours per resident per day
• Reported registered nurse staffing: about 0.70 hours per resident per day
• Case-mix adjusted total staffing: about 3.19 hours per resident per day, below the expected level
• Total nursing staff turnover: 58.1 percent over the year
• Turnover matters because familiar staff tend to notice changes in a resident's condition sooner. A rate near 60 percent means much of the nursing team changed over the course of a year.

Beds and ownership

The facility is licensed for 207 Medicare-certified beds and, in Medicare's most recent data, averages about 160 residents per day. It is a for-profit operation run under the legal name Palos Hills Healthcare LP, and it first began serving Medicare and Medicaid residents in 1989.

Certified beds: 207

Average residents per day: about 160

Ownership: for-profit (Palos Hills Healthcare LP)

Most recent health inspection

State surveyors in Illinois run the health inspection that feeds the 1-star inspection rating. The most recent standard health survey on file was completed on May 16, 2025. Inspectors cited 27 health deficiencies during that survey cycle, well above the national average of roughly 8 to 9, which lines up with the 1-star inspection score.

Most recent standard health survey: May 16, 2025

• Health deficiencies cited that cycle: 27
• Prior standard survey: February 16, 2024

Fines and penalties

Medicare's enforcement record for this facility is heavy. Over the period covered by the current data it has been fined 8 times for a combined $286,043, and it has had 1 federal payment denial, for 9 penalties in all. Medicare also marks the facility with its abuse icon, which it places on nursing homes cited for abuse that caused harm, or had the potential to cause harm, to residents within a recent look-back window.

Total fines: $286,043 across 8 separate fines

Federal payment denials: 1

Total penalties: 9

Abuse icon: flagged by Medicare

The bottom line

• As of Medicare's June 2026 update, Bria of Palos Hills (listed on Care Compare as Nexus at Palos, CCN 145650) carries the lowest overall rating Medicare gives, 1 out of 5 stars, built on a 1-star inspection history, 1-star staffing, and an active abuse flag. Its 2-star quality measures score and high reported staffing hours are the brighter spots, but the enforcement record, 58 percent turnover, and 27 deficiencies at the last survey are serious signals. Anyone weighing this facility should read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Care Compare, tour in person, and ask direct questions about staffing on nights and weekends and about the citations behind the abuse flag.