Glendora Canyon Transitional Care Unit

Glendora Canyon Transitional Care Unit is located in Glendora, California. The city has 51,180 people. With an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. In fact, we thought highly enough of this nursing home to rank it ahead of most of the facilities in Glendora. This place is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. There are many criteria within this category. Many of these criteria relate to staffing levels. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also received a first-rate short-term care score. We awarded them a strong grade of A- in this area. Our short-term care scores are important for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of physical therapy per week to its residents. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in California in this area with 56.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Moving on to another of this facility's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in that category, with a grade of C. Even though this was not on par with some of its other scores, it is still not a poor grade. Long-term care grades are crucial for individuals requiring non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to assessing the high level of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the facility's record for vaccinations. For example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very respectable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.09 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.