Conesus Lake Nursing & Rehabilitation

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a score of B. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 20.535713 percent of its patients, which is slightly less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. When computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed well in this metric. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more often.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a C for short-term care, which we consider to be a decent rating. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.