Glenwood Healthcare

While we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which is much better than its overall score. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider 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.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care score, which happens to be one of its better category grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 82.97872 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility received just a D in that area. With our short-term care score, we attempt to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The next area we rated was nursing. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. In computing our nursing grades, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Unfortunately, this facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this measure.