Glenwood Healthcare

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's second most favorable score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. With a score in this range in this area, we weren't surprised to find this place was below average in several staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. 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 third area we graded is long-term care. This facility's was given a low-end long-term care score where it received an F. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.71795 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.14 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad since it had some more complex patients.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well in this category either. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home offered just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.