Advanced Health Care of Glendale

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few places fared this well in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it is difficult to fully evaluate it in the inspections category.

This nursing home also was given an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. The nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Lastly, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.