Rosewood Care Center of Elgin

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also awarded this nursing home a favorable score in short-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which turns out to be one of our more impressive scores. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than a typical facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Illinois in this area with 58.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. We gave it an F for this category. Despite multiple acceptable grades in other areas, this grade is still disappointing so we wanted to make a note of it. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were disappointed to learn that this facility vaccinated only 58.30258 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.15 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.