Glenaire

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home was given an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in that area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 89.73214 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

In our last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our short-term care rating. This rounded out a very strong profile. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.