Glen Oaks Nursing Center

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant grades, this nursing home was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31035 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a score of B+. With our short-term care category, we strive to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home 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 last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In the last category we scored, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the facility topped off a very impressive report card. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.