Glencliff Home for the Elderly

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so well is that it received a very impressive long-term care score. Indeed, long-term care ended up being its second highest category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 89.03062 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next most favorable area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is typically a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next area we assessed was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in this category, with a grade of B-. Although this wasn't as strong as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our nursing grade considers several subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.