Glenoaks Convalescent Hospital

Glenoaks Convalescent Hospital is located in Glendale, California. The city has a multitude of options. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a well below average nursing home. This is one of the bottom five rated nursing homes in Glendale based on the data we assessed. With many other facilities in the city, you should be able to do better. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it received a very good grade in long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility's vaccination records weren't as impressive as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.59384 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Surprisingly, this nursing home actually earned a good score in inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Not many facilities that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place was above average in several of the major datapoints we focus on, including minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area as well. It received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. In the category of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this place provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 29.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.