With an address in Louisville, Kentucky, Glen Ridge Health Campus is just one of 39 options here. We awarded this facility a strong overall rating of A. Indeed, this proved to be the eighth best facility in Louisville according to our rankings. You really can not do much better than this facility. Headlining this nursing home's exemplary report card is its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next section.
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Glen Ridge Health Campus
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In crafting our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This facility has had near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do 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.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an A- for that area. This rounded out a straight A profile. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Glen Ridge Health Campus Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 7.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 0.97% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 13.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 23.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 4.4% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 97% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 19.1% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 9.69% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 9.69% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 9.56% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Glen Ridge Health Campus, 73.21% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Louisville, KY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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