Lemont Nursing & Rehab Center

Located in Lemont, Illinois, Lemont Nursing & Rehab Center is one of just two available facilities in this area. Featuring an overall score of B-, this appears to be a solid facility. Based on our ratings, there are certainly much worse places out there. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities fared more favorably in this area. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home increased its rating in this area by offering more than 50% more hours of physical therapy to its patients than the typical facility. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 60.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. The nursing grade considers a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these datapoints are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we scored was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest category. It received a lowly F in this area, which is certainly concerning. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated just 90.39409 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.