Alden Park Strathmoor

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home really outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The second highest area we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care grades are more important for those needing more traditional services related to activities of daily living. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility provided the vaccine to 96.16161 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, while this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic.

The next area we scored was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is certainly a major disappointment. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Given its score in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.