Glenwood Village Care Center

With an address in Glenwood, Minnesota, Glenwood Village Care Center is the lone option located there. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is a strong rating. Based on our analysis, you could do much worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to find that this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this place an A for the area of inspections. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. The nursing rating considers a host of subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which was above average. Finally, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we analyzed turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grade is often used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 29.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.