Glendale Place Care Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this facility an A- for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 89.583336 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are a number of subcategories within this category. Many of these factors reflect staffing levels. 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 surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Switching gears to our fourth area, this nursing home was given a decent short-term care grade of C. Short-term care ratings are vital for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.