Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Allegany

Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Allegany is the sole option we found in Allegany, New York. This facility appears to be ranked among the better facilities we looked at. A grade in this range requires very strong marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the United States. This nursing home also received consistently good grades in all four of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a patient more often.

The final area we rated is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B. Short-term care grades are crucial for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 39.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.