Glenwood Care and Rehabilitation

Glenwood Care and Rehabilitation is a large facility located in Canton, Ohio. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. This facility is about as bad as it gets. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection rating. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

While this place's overall score was terrible, it fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged only 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.

Another concern is the F this nursing home received in the area of short-term care. With our short-term care category, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its poor grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 31.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home did not fare very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 82.178215 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.49 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.