Dycora Transitional Health - Glendale

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating assesses many components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

As it turns out, this facility only received a D for its short-term care grade, which happens to be one of its higher category scores. Short-term care ratings are vital for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its patients returning home.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received really poor government inspections in recent years, causing us to give them a lowly F in our inspection category. An F in this category is generally a sign that we found red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection score. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home didn't perform well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 80.448715 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.