Glen Hill Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. We weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for our long-term care rating. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. This facility clearly performed favorably enough in these measures to earn an encouraging score in this category.

Turning our third category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its short-term care score. This is a very strong grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In the last area, we gave this nursing home a A+ for our nursing score. This topped off an elite profile. In determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are with residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.