Glenoaks Convalescent Hospital

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. 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.

This facility also didn't perform too badly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a C for that category, which ended up being among its better scores. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 82.026146 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our nursing score is based on several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility was given a very poor score in this area also. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. Short-term care scores are important for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its abysmal rating in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this facility provides far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.