Cadia Healthcare - Wheaton

This place's long-term care score is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a quality performance in this area, it earned one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 82.558136 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections category. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. There are quite a few criteria within this category. Most of these factors relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this metric.

The next area we scored is short-term care, which is this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. Naturally, this category pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. In this facility's case, we found that it provided less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.