Glendora Health Care Center

Glendora Health Care Center is a small facility in Wooster, Ohio. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all nursing homes in the nation. As you can see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category grades. It's hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's second strongest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A-. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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+. Our nursing rating analyzes a handful of factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 3.4 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we scored is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility an above average grade of B. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is typically a reliable measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned to the community from this facility. It outperformed the majority of facilities with 50.1 percent of its patients returning home.