Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital-Snf

With an address in Wheaton, Illinois, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital-Snf is one of four available nursing homes in this area. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this facility is among the best nursing homes we looked at. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we rated it as the best nursing home in Wheaton. Keep reading to see this facility's category grades, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A profile.

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category scores. In our short-term care category, we strive to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 63.5 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Contributing to its strong profile, this facility also was awarded a dominant long-term care score, with a grade of A. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility was given a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area, rounding out a straight A profile. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of components, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the nation when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided.