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Benchmarking Glen Hill Center in Danbury, CT against all nursing homes

 

Glen Hill Center in Danbury, CT has the 6th-fewest outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days (0.26) of the 190 nursing homes in New England that have a Family Council. That 0.26 is 63% lower than the average of 0.70 across those 190 nursing homes.

Glen Hill Center has these related standings among those 190 nursing homes:

  • outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days = 0.26 (6th-fewest, tied)

  • short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission = 20.0% (71st-fewest, tied)

  • short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit = 10.4% (72nd-most, tied)

  • short-stay residents who were rehospitalized or had an outpatient emergency department visit = 30.4% (73rd-fewest, tied)

  • hospitalizations per 1,000 long-stay resident days = 1.40 (75th-most, tied)

  • incentive bonus payments per $1M in claims = $2,549 (85th-highest)


Note that outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days tends to fall together with short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit. But on the latter, Glen Hill Center in Danbury, CT (with 10.4%) is higher (i.e., worse) than the median (10.2%) of those 190 nursing homes.

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Peers

beat out by McLean Health Center in Simsbury, CT (0.10), Linden Ponds in Hingham, MA (0.13), Wachusett Manor in Gardner, MA (0.16), and Jefferson House in Newington, CT (0.21), and 1 other.

tied with Hattie Ide Chaffee Home in East Providence, RI, Livewell Connecticut in Plantsville, CT, and Pines at Bristol for Nursing & Rehabilitation in Bristol, CT, all with 0.26.

Incidentally, none of the 9 is cited for abuse or neglect at a harm or potential-harm level. None of the 9 is a special-focus facility or candidate. All 9 are Medicaid certified. None of the 9 is a special-focus facility.


beat Jewish Healthcare Center in Worcester, MA (0.27), Avon Health Center in Avon, CT (0.27), Charlene Manor Extended Care Facility in Greenfield, MA (0.29), and Bride Brook Health & Rehabilitation Center in Niantic, CT (0.31), and others, ending with Cove's Edge in Damariscotta, ME (2.06).

26 out of the other 189 nursing homes were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days, e.g., Northbridge Health Care Center in Bridgeport, CT.

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References

  1. have a Family Council. Resident and family councils can facilitate communications with staff. The law requires nursing homes to allow councils to be set up by residents and families. Refer to Glossary. Except where noted, all data come from the Nov 6, 2020 update at Nursing Home Compare and all changes-over-time are over two years, comparing to the Nov 1, 2018 update.
  2. outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days. Lower values are better. The long-stay outpatient ED visits measure determines the number of outpatient ED visits that occurred among permanent (i.e. long-stay) residents of a nursing home during a one-year period, expressed as the number of outpatient ED visits for every 1,000 days that the long-stay residents were admitted to the facility (i.e. long-stay resident days). Refer to Nursing Home Compare Claims-Based Quality Measure Technical Specifications. To qualify for outpatient emergency department visits per 1,000 long-stay resident days, the number of residents in certified beds must be at least 40. Except where noted, all data come from the Nov 6, 2020 update at Nursing Home Compare and all changes-over-time are over two years, comparing to the Nov 1, 2018 update.
  3. in region. The 9 regions with their corresponding states or other geographic entities are: New England (CT ME MA NH RI VT), Mid Atlantic (DE DC MD NJ NY PA), Great Lakes (IL IN MI OH WI), Plains (IA KS MN MO NE ND SD), Southeast (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC SC TN VA WV), Southwest (AZ NM OK TX), Rocky Mountains (CO ID MT UT WY), Far West (AK CA HI NV OR WA), and Outlying Areas (VI PR GU AS MP). Except where noted, all data come from the Nov 6, 2020 update at Nursing Home Compare and all changes-over-time are over two years, comparing to the Nov 1, 2018 update.