Advanced Health Care of Glendale

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. Contributing to its first-rate resume, this nursing home also excelled in this area. In fact, it received a grade of of A for that category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home'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 considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home received an extremely favorable nursing rating. We awarded it an A- in that area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.