Glencroft Center for Modern Aging

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing score features many subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was given an A+ for its long-term care score. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.333336 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The third area we looked at is short-term care. Adding to its dominant resume, this facility also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- in that area. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Completing its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in our inspection category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that area. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through 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 safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.