Glen Oaks Health Campus

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.72611 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next area, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final area we assessed was nursing. This facility received an above average nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of C. Although this isn't nearly as elite as several of its other category grades, this remains a respectable rating for that category. There are many factors included in this category. Most of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing scores also consider some quality-focused metrics. We especially look at the percentage of patients who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.