Advanced Health Care of Glendale

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without the deficiency related data, it was challenging to evaluate it in terms of this category.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We assessed the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning patients more often.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in this category, with a grade of B-. Even though this was not as strong as many of this facility's other scores, it is still a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grade is used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.