Glen Arden

Glen Arden is a small nursing home located in Goshen, New York. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ facility, which is our very best rating. We were not surprised to discover that this is the highest graded facility in the city. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category scores, which appear to be equally strong as its overall score.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility fared very well in our short-term care category. We awarded them a dominant grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides roughly one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is certainly a very favorable sign. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this area with 58.9 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its superb profile, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that area. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.97 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The fourth category we looked at is nursing, where this facility received a grade of A-. This topped off an elite profile. Few facilities earned an A- or better in all four categories. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Of this total, nearly one fourth of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.