Celebrate Niles

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in this category, with an A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a grade of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.32402 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this 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 number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's least impressive category was short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.