Allegany Health Nursing and Rehab

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to point out its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a score of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. With our short-term care grade, we strive to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.41349 percent of its residents, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we rated is nursing. This facility was given a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing grade includes several components, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, while this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic.