Glencliff Home for the Elderly

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned an impressive grade of A in our long-term care category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 83.03887 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its high-end assessment, this nursing home also was given a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was given a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a straight A report card. The nursing rating includes a variety of subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.