Glasgow Gardens

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its 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 CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

In addition, we awarded this facility a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. This is obviously a major concern. In our short-term care grade, we seek to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We found that this facility was subpar in multiple staffing metrics we focus on. In fact, it offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.