Glen Arden

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this facility was awarded a strong grade of A in our long-term care category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 80 percent of its residents for pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Compounding its high-end resume, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was given a very strong grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility completed a straight A profile. We looked at the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.