Alden Estates of Northmoor

Alden Estates of Northmoor is located in Chicago, Illinois, which features an abundance of nursing homes. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. Chicago received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth considering. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 2.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Although this facility did not have as many nursing hours as many other nursing homes we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of preventing falls. This is usually a good indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses and safety protocols are in place.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a B- for its short-term care rating, which really isn't a bad grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 38.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the last area, we gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. This was the nursing home's worst category grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 99.70888 percent of its residents against pneumonia. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place did not perform quite as well here, with 1.99 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.