Gladstone Care and Rehabilitation

Gladstone Care and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Glendora, California. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. Although this score isn't too far off the city grade in Glendora which is a C, you still should be able to find a better option. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we didn't give this place a good overall grade, we actually gave it a strong grade in the category of inspections, where it received a B. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this place performed as well as just about any place we looked at. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in this area. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. This nursing home's vaccination statistics were a bit weaker than a few of the other statistics in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 86.17021 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement in this area in the future. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.36 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

The final area we graded was short-term care, which ended up being this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is considered to be a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 35 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.