Fonteum Care Compare · Illinois · Elgin
Nursing homes in Elgin, Illinois: 8 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Elgin — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Elgin: 3.6 / 5
How Elgin compares
Elgin vs the Illinois state average
Overall ★ — this city
3.6
State avg 2.6 / 5
+1.1 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
3.1
State avg 2.1 / 5
+1.0 vs state
Facilities — this city
8
667 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 8 rated facilities above.
Where Elgin sits
All 8 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Elgin sit in Kane County, Illinois. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Elgin, Illinois
Aperion Care Fox River
355 Raymond Street · CCN 145447 · For profit - Corporation
94 certified beds · 82.7 avg daily residents · 3.21 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey March 13, 2025
5
Overall
3
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Avondale Estates Of Elgin
1754-1760 Capital Street · CCN 146181 · For profit - Individual
120 certified beds · 72.6 avg daily residents · 5.17 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey June 27, 2025
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Highland Oaks
2750 West Highland Avenue · CCN 14A383 · Non profit - Church related
24 certified beds · 21.8 avg daily residents · 5.11 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 29, 2024
5
Overall
5
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Aperion Care Elgin
134 North Mclean Boulevard · CCN 145740 · For profit - Individual
101 certified beds · 87.5 avg daily residents · 2.77 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey April 24, 2025
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Pearl Of Elgin, The
2355 Royal Boulevard · CCN 145821 · For profit - Limited Liability company
139 certified beds · 123.3 avg daily residents · 3.22 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey August 22, 2024
4
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Avantara Of Elgin
1950 Larkin Avenue · CCN 145699 · For profit - Limited Liability company
112 certified beds · 94.5 avg daily residents · 3.44 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey September 4, 2025
3
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Crescent Care Of Elgin
180 South State Street · CCN 145004 · For profit - Partnership
88 certified beds · 69.5 avg daily residents · 3.66 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey September 12, 2024
2
Overall
3
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
River View Rehab Center
50 North Jane · CCN 145308 · For profit - Partnership
203 certified beds · 181.5 avg daily residents · 2.03 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey September 5, 2025
1
Overall
3
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Reading the data
What these CMS ratings mean
Every star column on this page comes straight from CMS’s Five-Star Quality Rating System. Fonteum re-publishes the federal numbers without re-scoring them — the definitions below are CMS’s, not ours.
- Overall star rating
- A 1-to-5 summary CMS derives from the health-inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings. It is a relative ranking, not an absolute score — roughly the top fifth of facilities earn 5 stars and the bottom fifth earn 1.
- Health inspection rating
- Based on the three most recent state standard surveys plus any complaint investigations, weighted toward recency. More and more severe deficiencies lower the rating.
- Staffing rating
- Built from payroll-based (PBJ) nurse staffing hours per resident day, case-mix adjusted, including registered-nurse hours and weekend coverage.
- Quality-measure (QM) rating
- Drawn from a set of MDS- and claims-based clinical measures (e.g. pressure ulcers, falls, hospitalisation, antipsychotic use) across short- and long-stay residents.
- Special Focus Facility (SFF)
- A separate CMS program flagging facilities with a persistent pattern of serious health-inspection problems. “SFF” marks an active designation; “SFF Candidate” marks a facility on the candidate list.
Full methodology: how Fonteum sources and signs CMS nursing-home data.
Other Illinois cities with nursing homes
Compare Elgin with nearby markets — facility counts from the same CMS snapshot.
Fonteum research on nursing-home quality
Star ratings vs actual resident harm
Where CMS overall stars diverge from documented harm-level deficiencies.
Nursing-home staffing deserts by county
Counties where reported nurse hours per resident day fall furthest behind.
Nursing-home ownership networks
How chain ownership concentrates across Medicare-certified facilities.
Facilities banned from new Medicare admissions
Payment-denial enforcement actions and the facilities they hit.