Atrium Post Acute Care of Park Ridge

To go along with a favorable overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Building on its impressive resume, this place also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that category. The nursing rating consists of many components, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to the third category, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to the next category, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care grade. Although this was not nearly as impressive as some of its other scores, this remains one of our more impressive scores a facility can receive. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.