Glendale Place Care Center

Glendale Place Care Center is a nursing home in Cincinnati, Ohio which has a total of 795,220 people. Featuring an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. If you take a look at the other options in Cincinnati, we suspect you will find this facility to be a better option than most of the nursing homes in the city. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this place a grade of A for the area of inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home fared well in the category of long-term care. As a result, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most impressive grades. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 75.60322 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for. Fortunately, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.24 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing score analyzes many components, however, the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we assessed was short-term care, in which we gave it a strong grade of B. This facility really didn't have any weak grades. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.6 percent of its patients returning home.