Alden Estates of Evanston
2520 Gross Point Road, Evanston IL 60201 · (847) 328-6000 · 62.72% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Alden Estates of Evanston is an average-sized nursing home in Evanston, Illinois. This turns out to be a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. The facilities in Evanston received high scores across the board with a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places in Illinois to find a nursing home. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a high-end short-term care score. We gave them an impressive strong of A+ in this category. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it offered about 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. This is what we like to find when grading a facility in this category. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 66.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. In calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. According to its CMS data, this place provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Approximately one quarter of this care came from registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures are higher than average. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is long-term care, was this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. This really was one of just a couple of weak links in a quality report card. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.05556 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is a bit less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Alden Estates of Evanston Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better