Gladstone Care and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received an inspection grade which is better than its overall rating. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent health inspections. We awarded this facility a very solid grade of B+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores was in the category of long-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. In determining these long-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's personal care services. Unfortunately, it looks like we are missing some of this nursing home's data for this category. Without having access to the long-term care related data for this nursing home, it ended up being a challenge to grade it in this area.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. There are a host of factors within this category. Most of the subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

This nursing home's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Given its abysmal score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home provides far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.