Glenview Terrace Nursing Center

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for inspections. This grade is better than this place's overall grade. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Nursing scores are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

The next area we graded is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most meaningful for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final area we graded is long-term care, which was a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for the area of long-term care. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 88.020836 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.