Glenflora

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was awarded positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this category, with a B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest score. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 81.53846 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's second worse category is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average score. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. It looks like this facility was subpar in several staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in nursing, leaving this as the facility's least impressive grade. The nursing rating consists of several subcategories, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.