Binger Nursing and Rehabilitation

Even though we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable long-term care rating this year. We gave it a B in this category, which was far better than its overall grade. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 64.49275 percent of its residents, which is a bit lower than we expected. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We were also pleasantly surprised to award this facility a relatively favorable inspection rating as well. We gave it a respectable grade of B- in this category, which was much better than its overall score. Our inspection scores are based on several 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 risk to resident safety. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. When determining our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we assessed is short-term care, where this facility received a bottom of the barrel score here as well. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. With its weak rating in this area, we were not shocked to find that this place provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.