Advanced Health Care of Aurora

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Very few nursing homes performed as well in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its short-term care grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care rating. Although this was not as good as several of its other scores, this is still one of the more impressive scores a facility can receive. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.