Glenview Health Care Facility

Glenview Health Care Facility is located in Glasgow, Kentucky, a city with a population of 30,349 people. This nursing home is a middle of the road facility, with an overall grade of C. Glasgow received a city grade of B+, so there are other options in the city worth considering. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its remarkable inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 87.43961 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.99 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We gave this facility just a D for our short-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Given its weak grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover this nursing home offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 27 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last category we rated is nursing, which is this facility's weakest area. It received an F for this category, which is certainly a major concern. There are a host of subcategories included in this grade. Many of the factors reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.