Someren Glen

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 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.

This nursing home also was given a very impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's second most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. With our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with an A-. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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 category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B. Even though this turned out to be its least impressive category score, this is still a quality score. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 43.097645 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.