Batavia Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. The nursing rating weighs quite a few components, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher grades in our long-term care category as well, with a B. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective 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 patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 81.034485 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points less than we expected but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we scored was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. Believe it or not, this is this nursing home's weakest area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their worst score still rates higher than most nursing homes. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.