Glenflora

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.

This nursing home truly excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Not many facilities performed more favorably in this area. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 84.14634 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's next highest category ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility was awarded a decent nursing score. Even though this wasn't quite as elite as several of its other grades, this is truly not a bad grade. In determining our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.