Batavia Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our nursing grade. We gave them an A+ in this category. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection ratings are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a grade of B+. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we graded is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B. Believe it or not, this was this nursing home's weakest category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's worst score still is superior to most other nursing homes. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 82.07547 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.