Avantara Lake Zurich

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its high-end short-term care grade. We gave them one of our best scores in that area, with a score of A-. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing rating is based on several factors, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this category. In our long-term care category, we focus on the volume of services provided by a nursing home, as well as some qualitative metrics. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 46.171173 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.