Thrive of Fox Valley

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having access to complete deficiency data, it ended up being difficult to grade the place in this area.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing rating weighs a host of factors. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

The final category we graded is long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Although this is not nearly as dominant as some of its other grades, this remains an acceptable grade for that category. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were not able to find this facility's vaccination rates. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.