Glendora Health Care Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. The nursing grade assesses many datapoints, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's short-term care rating turns out to be one of its higher features. The facility was given a grade of B- in this area. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Looking to our inspection category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our inspection grades are based on the facility's health inspection reports. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This tells you this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Turning to the final area, we awarded this facility a D in long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. Sadly, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility provided the vaccine to just 79.69925 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.