Brookdale Burr Ridge

Brookdale Burr Ridge is located in Hinsdale, Illinois, a city with a total of 17,597 people. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this facility is one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. This nursing home proved to be one of the better nursing homes in Hinsdale, which boasts a decent selection of facilities. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the category of short-term care. In our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides roughly 1.5 times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is definitely a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 78.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This particular facility provided 6.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the higher figures we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to our next area, we awarded this nursing home a D for our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Nevertheless, you should not focus exclusively one bad area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 91.666664 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we anticipated. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.