Batavia Nursing Care Center

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility was awarded its second highest category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a decent grade. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.59944 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's weakest area was short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a D. Our short-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. With its abysmal score in this area, we weren't shocked to discover this nursing home offered far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.