The Glen

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B. It outpaced most facilities in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 91.946304 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we scored is short-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.