Avantara Elgin

This facility really excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. This really salvaged its overall profile. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B-. Our nursing rating includes several subcategories, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient more frequently.

We also found that this nursing home has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we awarded it a B- in this category. This is better than many facilities in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home did not fare very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is its weakest category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 78.94737 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.