The Medical Resort at Willowbrook

While we didn't give this facility a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a B+. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also gave this facility a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is more often than not a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 3.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Among this place's worst category grades was a lowly F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found red flags on the nursing home's government inspections. For places that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this place was assessed large government fines totaling over $100,000. This generally signifies that a poor track record spanned multiple years.

The final category we rated was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 47.70115 percent of its residents. This is pretty significantly lower than average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.