Glenlake Terrace Nursing & Reh

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually ended up being its next best score. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to only 80.61674 percent of its residents, which is somewhat concerning. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing score is based on a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the final area, this nursing home really didn't perform very well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care scores are probably more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this place was below average in multiple staffing metrics we looked at. It offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.3 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.