Glens Falls Center

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area, with an A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our long-term care scores are more critical for those needing more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 70.674484 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. Our nursing grade analyzes several subcategories, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was given a decent short-term care grade of C. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.