Glenhaven

Glenhaven is a small non-profit facility located in Glenwood City, Wisconsin. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a dominant score. Based on our ratings, this place is just about as as good as it gets. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it earned an impressive inspection grade. Inspections ended up being its best category. In this area, we gave this nursing home an A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Our nursing score is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received a high-end score of A- in our long-term care area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 90.90909 percent of its residents. Fortunately, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.09 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This finished off a first-rate report card. Few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in all four categories. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 52.5 percent of its residents returning home.