Rosewood Care Center Northbrook

Rosewood Care Center Northbrook is located in Northbrook, Illinois. This nursing home proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of B-. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Northbrook. We were also pleased to discover that this nursing home received consistently decent grades in all of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A-. Inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you 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. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category scores was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing rating includes a host of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.

Our final area is short-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a C in this area. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 27.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.