Binger Nursing and Rehabilitation

Although we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable nursing score this year. We gave it a respectable grade of B in this category, which was much better than its overall grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 65.97222 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home earned mediocre inspections in recent years. We awarded them a C in this category. Inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. In forming these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With a grade of this caliber for this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this nursing home was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. The nursing home provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.