Nursing Homes in Dekalb, Illinois

There are four facilities in Dekalb, Illinois, which at least gives you a few choices. With a city grade of B, this city's nursing homes proved to be respectable options. For comparison's sake, we also looked at the nursing homes in the nearby city of Saint Charles, which received a city grade of B-. While there's nothing wrong with this grade, we found the nursing homes Dekalb to be better on the whole. This city's nursing homes were stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found in the next paragraph.

As mentioned above, this city's nursing homes received a great overall grade, but we especially wanted to point out that some of its facilities received almost perfect health inspections in recent years. We awarded Dekalb an impressive grade of A- in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We also awarded this city an A- in our short-term care category. Finally, Dekalb earned middle of the road grades in our nursing and long-term care areas.