Warren Barr Oak Lawn

    9401 S Kostner Ave, Oak Lawn, IL 60453
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate staff helped regain mobility

    I placed my mom here for short-term rehab and I couldn't be happier with the compassionate, professional staff - nurses, therapists and admissions were attentive and thoughtful (special thanks to social worker Crystal). The facility was very clean, well-maintained and conveniently located, and therapy produced real mobility gains so my mom regained confidence. Warm, responsive care throughout; I highly recommend this place.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    2.85·(48)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.7
    • Staff

      2.6
    • Meals

      1.9
    • Amenities

      2.4
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing staff
    • Skilled physical, occupational, and speech therapy
    • Effective short-term rehabilitation programs
    • Helpful and proactive social work support
    • Clean, well-maintained public areas and rooms
    • Welcoming and knowledgeable admissions team
    • Convenient location near Christ Hospital
    • Comfortably sized resident rooms
    • Recovery-focused interdisciplinary care
    • Staff who go above and beyond for residents

    Cons

    • Understaffing leading to long call-light response times
    • Inconsistent care quality between units and shifts
    • Gaps in medication communication and coordination
    • Delays in personal-care and incontinence assistance
    • Sanitation and odor concerns in certain areas
    • Inconsistent meal service and dietary adherence
    • Disjointed discharge planning and family communication
    • Maintenance deficits and worn or broken furnishings
    • Front-desk and management accessibility issues
    • Unreliable therapy scheduling and missed sessions
    • Billing and insurance communication problems

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews of the facility present a mixed picture with notable strengths in clinical rehabilitation and social support alongside persistent operational weaknesses. Positive themes include a cadre of skilled therapists (physical, occupational, and speech) and social workers who are frequently described as helpful and proactive. Many families credit the interdisciplinary therapy teams with measurable mobility gains and successful short-term discharges home. Nursing staff are often characterized as compassionate and attentive, and admissions personnel are regularly praised for being welcoming and informed. The facility’s location and comfortable room sizes, along with generally clean and well-maintained common areas, are further frequently cited positives.

    At the same time, reviewers describe systemic issues that affect care consistency and safety. Understaffing—particularly overnight and on certain shifts—emerges as a recurring operational weakness that contributes to long call-light response times and delays in attending to personal-care needs, including toileting and bathing assistance. Multiple accounts indicate variability in care quality from one unit or floor to another and uneven performance between day and night staff. These patterns are associated with family concerns about timely attention and dignity of care.

    Communication and coordination gaps are another prominent theme. Families describe instances of medication changes, missing physician or pharmacy orders, and poor handoffs during discharge planning that led to confusion and, in some cases, hospital readmission. There are repeated mentions of inconsistent messaging between nurses, physicians, and family members and of disjointed discharge processes without timely family conferences. Billing and insurance conversations also appear to be a source of frustration for some families.

    Operationally, the dining program and environmental maintenance show mixed performance. Some reviewers found meals satisfactory and appropriate for rehabilitation needs, while others described cold or greasy meals, meal-assistance shortfalls, and dietary-adherence concerns. Cleanliness and upkeep are strong in many areas, but there are multiple references to sanitation and odor concerns in select areas, as well as broken furniture, cracked room finishes, and other maintenance deficits. These issues appear to be concentrated in particular units rather than facility-wide, reinforcing the pattern of variability.

    Activities and resident life receive modestly positive comments: the facility offers organized activities such as bingo and movie nights, and therapy programs often incorporate functional activities that support recovery. However, limitations on participation (for example, related to vaccination status) and inconsistent activity staffing reduce engagement for some residents.

    In summary, the facility demonstrates clear strengths in rehabilitation services, social work support, and in many instances compassionate nursing care. These strengths produce positive outcomes for a number of residents. However, persistent operational challenges—most notably staffing shortages, variability across units and shifts, communication breakdowns around medications and discharge, and localized sanitation and maintenance issues—create risk areas that prospective residents and families should evaluate carefully. A pattern of inconsistent responsiveness and coordination suggests benefit in asking targeted questions about staffing levels on specific units and shifts, medication-management protocols, discharge-planning processes, and recent regulatory or quality-improvement actions before admission. A small number of families have escalated particularly serious concerns to oversight agencies, so verifying current corrective actions and monitoring metrics with facility leadership is advisable.

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    Medicare Ratings

    4·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Warren Barr Oak Lawn is located at 9401 S Kostner Ave, Oak Lawn, IL, 60453.

    About Warren Barr Oak Lawn

    Warren Barr Oak Lawn sits at 9401 South Kostner Avenue in Oak Lawn, Illinois, operating as a for-profit nursing home with 122 certified beds and about 100 residents each day, and since February 2023, it's been managed by Oakway Operations LLC and Legacy Healthcare Financial Services LLC, both tied to Legacy Healthcare. The place serves seniors needing skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, orthopedic care, wound care, memory care, and other medical support like cardiac care, stroke and neurological condition care, pulmonary care, oncology care, and post-surgical recovery, and folks can find specialty services like in-house dialysis and peritoneal dialysis at particular locations along with post-transplant programs and therapy sessions available every day of the week. Nurses watch over residents day and night and give about 3.67 hours of care per resident each day, which is higher than the state average, even if the nurse turnover rate is also higher than usual at 55.9%. There are 22 certified beds open as of June 2025, and the community accepts both Medicare and Medicaid.

    The place has gone through big renovations to make things more comfortable and safer for residents, investing in rehabilitation complexes and improving suites, while rooms come with private bathrooms, air conditioning, cable TV, Wi-Fi, and sometimes kitchenettes. Guests can use a community dining room where a professional chef handles allergy needs and special diets, and the facility has transportation and parking, plus provides housekeeping, laundry, and move-in help, while social and recreational amenities include things like a movie theater, game rooms, activity rooms, scheduled programs, fitness room, spa, outdoor areas, music options, and walking paths alongside daily community activities. Memory care combines 24-hour supervision and a safe environment with enrichment activities, and the skilled staff offers help with medications, daily needs, and mobility, while wound care gets oversight from certified specialists led by a WCC Nurse Director.

    You'll find accreditation for nursing care from The Joint Commission here, plus the Gold Seal of Approval for Post-Acute Care, and US News named it Best Nursing Homes 2025 for short-term rehabilitation. There's a resident council so everyone's voice can get heard about care and services, and the facility tries to support both residents and their families as much as possible, offering virtual and scheduled tours for those who want to see the place. Inspection data shows 28 total deficiencies, including three infection-related issues, and the staff and management, though highly dedicated, face the same complex challenges as many nursing homes, and the building is being upgraded to further enhance comfort and rehabilitation experiences for the people who live there.

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