Advanced Health Care of Glendale

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category, where it received a grade of A+. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an A+. This is one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. We weren't able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to note the fact that this facility was given a top-shelf grade of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was given an extremely favorable nursing score. We gave it a grade of A in that area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.