Glen Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is largely associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last area we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in this category, with a B-. While this wasn't as high as some of this facility's other scores, it is still a middle of the pack score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.47644 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.