Yorkview Nursing & Rehabilitation

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last area we analyzed was long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 94.96403 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.