Providence Place at Glencroft

Providence Place at Glencroft is a very-large non-profit nursing home in Glendale, Arizona. This turns out to be an A rated facility, which is one of the top ratings that we offer. Indeed, this is one of the three best nursing homes in the city. We also gave this facility strong scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this place also excelled in inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not something to panic about.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Nursing scores are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place surpassed the overwhelming majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

This nursing home also received a impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this facility's third strongest category grade. In that area, this facility received a grade of A. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. This was more of a strength for this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Arizona with 69.7 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, less than half of their short-term patients are able to return home.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable long-term care score. We gave it a B+ in that category, wrapping up one of our finer report cards. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to looking at the elite level of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's record for vaccinations. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.