Lemont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center sits at 12450 Walker Rd. in Lemont, Illinois, with 173 beds that are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, and they take private insurance too, which gives families several payment choices when they're needing skilled nursing care for either short-term recovery or long-term stays, and what's good is they've got private rooms and semi-private rooms, so you've got some options depending on what you need or want. The center provides a secured memory care unit for folks with memory issues, and they also have respite and short-term stays for people who need a little extra help after leaving the hospital or when regular caregivers need a break. You can see they've got rehabilitation services with a dedicated rehab center, and the clinical and therapy teams specialize both in rehab and memory care, offering specialized services beyond these basics, and even though their staff works hard to enhance residents' lives and push for independence, the place doesn't try to pretend everyone always bounces back perfectly, because some of the numbers show the real day-to-day picture.
The facility holds a Joint Commission accreditation and has recognition from Newsweek as one of America's Best Nursing Homes for 2024, so they've had some outside groups say they're doing their work right, but you can also look at the star ratings which tell you their quality measures and health inspection ratings are above average, although they get a below-average score for staff hours, which means nurses and other staff are stretched a bit thin - registered nurses spend about 46 minutes a day with each resident, and there's 1 hour and 36 minutes from licensed nurses, with physical therapy coming in at around 6 minutes per resident, so there's always a balance. You could say they've got a warm and supportive environment, and they try to provide individualized care to everyone living or recovering there, but the data shows things like a 20.2% rate of residents getting antipsychotic medication over the long term and a 93.5% rate of pneumococcal vaccinations, which isn't perfect but it's much better for some measures than many other places, like having a 0.4% use of restraints and a 0.7% rate of urinary tract infections shows some things are going pretty steady.
You'll see different outcomes among residents, like 9.7% receiving antianxiety or hypnotic medication, 4.5% with depressive symptoms, and some folks still needing more help with daily life as time goes on, with 14.8% needing more help and 18.6% losing mobility, so while there's help available, not everyone keeps improving. For short-term care, their re-hospitalization rate is 18.3%, which is actually below both the Illinois and national averages, but their short-stay improvement in mobility, sitting at 55.5%, falls under state and national levels, so not everybody bounces back at the same speed. Cases of new or worsening pressure ulcers in short-stay residents are under 1%, and vaccination rates for flu and pneumonia among short-stayers are very high (over 89%). Over the past three years, inspectors handled 13 complaints with none left unresolved, and the latest health inspection, back in 2016, cited two health issues but nothing that lingers.
The staff tries to be compassionate and pays attention to each resident's daily needs, with services and amenities running around the clock, and there's a resident council in place so residents and families can talk things over as a group, but there's no big Continuing Care Retirement Community there - just the nursing and rehabilitation center with memory care, short and long-term skilled nursing, and many specialized services if needed, all under one roof. While the facility also manages things online with social media logins linked to Meta, the focus at Lemont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center remains on health management, recovery, rehabilitation, and support for those needing nursing care, and families looking for information will find an open, steady, and clear approach to the way things are run here.
