Westfield Quality Care of Aurora

In addition to receiving a favorable overall grade, this facility also earned a strong inspection score, which is associated with the facility's recent health inspections. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B+. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients more often.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. This facility turned out to be relatively strong in each category we looked at. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.4382 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.