Glendale Adventist Medical Center Dp/Snf

Glendale Adventist Medical Center Dp/Snf is in Glendale, California. This city has a total of 172,817 people. We gave this nursing home an impressive overall grade of A. As a matter of fact, it is one of the top three nursing homes in Glendale. Glendale offers a double digit count of nursing homes, but we doubt you will need to check out too many others. This one is a first class option. This facility also received impressive ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. This facility clearly performed favorably enough in these metrics to earn a quality grade in this category.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. The facility supplied approximately 50% more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. This is what we like to find when grading a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. We gave it a grade of B+ in that category. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. The nursing rating considers many factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the higher totals we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided.