Alden Estates of Orland Park

Alden Estates of Orland Park is a large facility located in Orland Park, Illinois. This facility is a subpar nursing home. A score of this caliber indicates we found a few red flags. As far as we can see, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

Although we were not complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it actually earned an A in our short-term care rating. If it wasn't for this category, this place's profile would have been even worse. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Illinois in this area with 60.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a grade of C for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing score also includes applicable quality-based metrics. While this facility excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it lagged a bit in certain subcategories that related to quality. This facility's nursing rating was pulled down by its weak performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 15.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were suffering from pressure ulcers. Since many pressure ulcers could be avoided with proper nursing protocols, we reduce a facility's nursing rating when we see this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.

This nursing home earned mediocre government inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of C in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories J through L. This indicates inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to place patient safety or health in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received some government fines in recent years.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.10811 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. We were far less impressed with the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 3.8 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is certainly an alarming figure.