Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation is a senior living facility located in Glenwood, Arkansas, a city with 4,821 people. With an A overall grade, we rated this facility in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong with this place. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category grades, which are also impressive.
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Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received an excellent inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this category with an A. Inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also was awarded a dominant long-term care grade, with a grade of A. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our third area, this facility was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in that category. Our short-term care scores are arguably more important for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the last area, this nursing home also performed admirably in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area. This completed a very impressive report card. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 12.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 4.23% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often associated with poor nursing care. Closer supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 7.25% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 7.75% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for several conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 25.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 5.93% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 100% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 12.5% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 11.5% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 11.5% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 24.55% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Glenwood Health and Rehabilitation, 77.45% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.