Rock River Gardens

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far better than its overall score. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility received high scores in our nursing category as well. It received one of our highest scores in that category with a score of B-. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility averages just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is not an impressive total. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

This nursing home's next highest area was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility was given a grade of C in long-term care, which is a respectable rating. Long-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's volume of nursing services. This means a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 94.23077 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.