Aaron Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Aaron Manor Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is a large nursing home located in Fairport, New York. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.26882 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facilities next best area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 50.6 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The next category we rated was nursing. This facility was awarded a grade of B- for the area. Our nursing score is based on several factors, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This facility was above average in several of the major areas we assessed, including minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.