Dimensions Living - Prospect Heights

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received even higher grades for short-term care. In fact, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with a score of A. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. The nursing grade analyzes many subcategories, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was nursing, is this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This was one of the few dings in an otherwise strong report card. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 75.92593 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.