Concord Care Center of Cortland

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our nursing grade weighs quite a few components, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is generally a useful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. It does not look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents 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 next most favorable category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our long-term care ratings are more important for people needing more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.090904 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home 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 number.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F in this area. This score was very detrimental to this facility's overall score. For nursing homes with poor inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines recently of more than $50,000. This usually suggests that government inspectors became frustrated after several years of bad government inspections.