Someren Glen

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more often.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so well is that it was awarded a dominant short-term care score. Indeed, short-term care ended up being its second most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. In this area, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This actually was this facility's least impressive area. Long-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to only 48.581562 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.