Oak Park

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its dominant assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we assessed is nursing, in which this nursing home received a B. Believe it or not, this was this nursing home's weakest category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their worst grade still outperforms most other nursing homes. The nursing grade assesses many data points, 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 resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.