Glasgow State Nursing Facility

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this place an A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. It does not appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this facility an A+. Our nursing rating consists of many datapoints, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients at least once a day.

Turning the page to our next area, this high end facility also was superb in the category of long-term care. In this category, it received a A+. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 92.8934 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last category, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. This finished off a very favorable profile. Short-term care grades are typically used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.