Fonteum Care Compare · Illinois · Rockford
Nursing homes in Rockford, Illinois: 12 Medicare-certified facilities.
CMS overall star rating, staffing rating, health inspection rating, and ownership type for every Medicare-certified nursing home in Rockford — every column traced to the CMS Care Compare NH Provider Information dataset (4pq5-n9py).
Average CMS overall rating in Rockford: 2.3 / 5
How Rockford compares
Rockford vs the Illinois state average
Overall ★ — this city
2.3
State avg 2.6 / 5
-0.3 vs state
Staffing ★ — this city
2.3
State avg 2.1 / 5
+0.1 vs state
Facilities — this city
12
667 statewide
State averages are CMS-published per-state means from the same snapshot; the city figure is the mean across the 12 rated facilities above.
Where Rockford sits
All 12 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Rockford sit in Winnebago County, Illinois. County is the geographic unit CMS uses for staffing-desert and access analysis.
All Medicare-certified nursing homes in Rockford, Illinois
Mercyhealth Javon Bea Hospital -Snf
2400 N Rockton Ave · CCN 146196 · Non profit - Corporation
17 certified beds · QM Not rated · Last standard survey October 2, 2024
4
Overall
1
Staffing
5 / 5
Health Insp.
Amberwood Care Centre
2313 North Rockton Avenue · CCN 145908 · For profit - Limited Liability company
135 certified beds · 125.1 avg daily residents · 3.23 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey September 11, 2024
3
Overall
2
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Alpine Fireside Health Center
3650 North Alpine Road · CCN 146066 · For profit - Corporation
66 certified beds · 33.5 avg daily residents · 4.91 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey October 11, 2024
3
Overall
5
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Willows Health Center
4054 Albright Lane · CCN 146101 · Non profit - Corporation
50 certified beds · 33.7 avg daily residents · 3.84 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 4 / 5 · Last standard survey November 25, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Fairhaven Christian Ret Center
3470 North Alpine Road · CCN 14E345 · Non profit - Church related
96 certified beds · 72.3 avg daily residents · 4.77 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey January 8, 2025
3
Overall
3
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Alden Park Strathmoor
5668 Strathmoor Drive · CCN 145259 · For profit - Limited Liability company
189 certified beds · 147.2 avg daily residents · 3.34 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 5 / 5 · Last standard survey May 14, 2025
2
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Pa Peterson At The Citadel
1311 Parkview Avenue · CCN 145751 · For profit - Partnership
129 certified beds · 124 avg daily residents · 3.59 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 3 / 5 · Last standard survey May 21, 2025
2
Overall
1
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
River Bluff Nursing Home
4401 North Main Street · CCN 145771 · For profit - Corporation
304 certified beds · 151.6 avg daily residents · 4.35 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey April 10, 2025
2
Overall
4
Staffing
3 / 5
Health Insp.
Rock River Health Care
707 West Riverside Boulevard · CCN 145818 · For profit - Limited Liability company
130 certified beds · 77.3 avg daily residents · 2.65 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 2 / 5 · Last standard survey October 9, 2024
2
Overall
2
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
Alden Debes Rehab & Hcc
550 South Mulford Avenue · CCN 145142 · For profit - Corporation
268 certified beds · 179.1 avg daily residents · 3.41 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM Not rated · Last standard survey July 31, 2025
1
Overall
1
Staffing
2 / 5
Health Insp.
The Citadel At Saint Anne Place
4405 Highcrest Road · CCN 145563 · Non profit - Church related
179 certified beds · 127.2 avg daily residents · 3.35 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey June 5, 2025
1
Overall
2
Staffing
1 / 5
Health Insp.
Forest City Rehab & Nrsg Ctr
321 Arnold Avenue · CCN 145937 · For profit - Limited Liability company
213 certified beds · 163.8 avg daily residents · 2.49 total nurse hrs/resident-day · QM 1 / 5 · Last standard survey November 19, 2025
1
Overall
2
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.
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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.