Alden Lincoln Park

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

This facility's second highest area ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a C. In our long-term care category, we focus on the volume of services provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of quality statistics. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this facility vaccinates 94.94949 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last category we scored was nursing, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is obviously very concerning. When determining our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.