Glenwood Healthcare

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 80.254776 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we rated proved to be this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- for our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.