Alden Estates Cts of Huntley

Alden Estates Cts of Huntley is a large nursing home located in Huntley, Illinois. It looks like this nursing home is one of the higher-graded facilities we assessed. A score in this range requires very strong scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the nation. The best part of this facility's impressive report card is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the more impressive figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these statistics. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. Adding to its top-shelf resume, this facility also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A for that area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home is significantly above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients. The facility offered about one and a half times as much care per patient from both of these groups of skilled professionals than the typical facility provided. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility received an acceptable long-term care score. Even though this wasn't as strong as many of its other grades, this is still not a bad grade. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for people requiring more traditional services related to personal care. On top of considering the favorable volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. For example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.71795 percent of its patients, which is above average. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.