Generations at Elmwood Park

We did not have many positive things to say about this facility's overall grade or its category grades. However, with a grade of just D in this category, it still performed badly. Our nursing grade assesses quite a few factors, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is slightly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. With places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, we want to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This generally indicates that a facility'spoor track record has been an issue for several years.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of long-term care. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 58.4466 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Short-term care grades are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.