Caremeridian-Buffalo

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this proved to be its best category. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to our third category, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final area we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B. Although this ended up being its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless a good rating. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 75.53191 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.