Glenn-Mor Nursing Home

On top of receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many elite scores, this nursing home received a strong long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 91.39785 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients more often.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care grade. We awarded it an A- in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.