Glencroft Center for Modern Aging

While we gave this facility a bad overall grade, we gave it a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was quite a bit better than its other categories. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The third area we graded is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is a decent grade in this category. Long-term care grades are commonly used to score a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 91.04478 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Nevertheless, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.