Terrace Glen Village

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient even once per day.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should 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.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's least impressive area is long-term care, which is the last category we assessed. For this area, we gave this facility an D. We wanted to point out this possible weak spot, but you should not focus exclusively on one category either. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 72.8 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.