Clarence Care Center

This nursing home's best category grade came in the category of inspections. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Additionally, we gave this facility a B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher scores. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is frequently a reliable assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. The nursing score is based on quite a few datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This place averages just 0 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The next category we scored was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in that area. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the amount of services provided by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 86.507935 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.