Glendora Health Care Center

We would like to point out that this facility's nursing grade exceeded its overall rating. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Nursing grades are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility actually earned a solid government inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B-. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The third area we graded is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a decent grade of C. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final area we graded is long-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to just 72.53521 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.