Glendale Adventist Medical Center Distinct Part/Skilled Nursing Facility

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in the category of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident more often.

Building on its strong resume, this facility also was given a dominant long-term care score, with a score of A. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home an elite grade of A for our inspections rating. With this score, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.