Glen Oaks Nursing Center

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this very important area. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

Adding to its strong assessment, this facility also was awarded a strong long-term care score, with a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received a strong short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B+. Our short-term care scores are likely most important for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to our next category, this facility also performed admirably in the nursing category. We gave it a grade of B+ in this category. This completed a very strong report card. There are numerous criteria included in this area. Many of these criteria relate to levels of 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.