Rosewood Care Center of Alton
3490 Humbert Road, Alton IL 62002 · (618) 465-2626 · 75.61% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Rosewood Care Center of Alton is a large nursing home located in Alton, Illinois. With an overall rating of B-, this looks like a solid facility. You could certainly do worse than this place. Lastly, this facility had an ownership change in the last year, so we will need to take a closer look to see how new ownership affects this facility's performance measures.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B. In calculating a facility's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of skill of those nurses. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility in Illinois.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 51 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we rated was long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is clearly a major disappointment. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Based on its grade in this category, it is surprising to discover that this nursing home had favorable subcategory scores in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. Indeed, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.59514 percent of its residents. This percentage is actually better than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Rosewood Care Center of Alton Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have had falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating signs of depression. Increased levels of depression may reveal lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better