Glenbrook Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center
3811 Parnell Ave, Fort Wayne IN 46805 · (260) 482-4651 · 69.14% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Glenbrook Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center is an average-sized government-owned facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. With an overall rating of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. Fortunately, if you aren't satisfied with this facility, there are 26 nursing homes to choose from in the city so you should be able to find a better option. In spite of all this, this nursing home surprisingly performed well in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 82 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's next most respectable score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 39.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.72727 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility fared much worse with 3.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, this figure is nearly twice the national average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home didn't fare very well here either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. When computing our nursing scores, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place didn't perform as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was above the national average in both metrics.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Glenbrook Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have had falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating signs of depression. Increased levels of depression may reveal lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better