The Glen

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in that area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. When calculating our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we assessed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 91.390724 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility 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 number.