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 86.72317 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 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the next area, this facility also earned a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we analyzed turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- in nursing. The nursing grade is based on a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend 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 nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.