The Village at Gleannloch Farms

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care rating. In fact, we gave it an A in that area. With our short-term care score, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 61 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This place provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this facility performed as well as any facility Texas. Preventing serious falls is typically an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are employed.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. It earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we rated, this facility was given a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the criteria we considered after this nursing home's quality nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.