Glen Oaks Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a bad overall grade, we also awarded this facility poor grades in the various categories. It only received a D for its inspections rating, which was its best category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also need to point out that this facility received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This often suggests that a facility's bad performance has been an issue for several years.

We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. In computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of skill of those nurses. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home really did not fare well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. When facilities receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We discovered that this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 46.153847 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.