Conesus Lake Nursing & Rehabilitation

In addition to being an elite facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few facilities fared as well in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are 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.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a top-shelf long-term care score. We gave them a strong strong of A- in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 22.666666 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final area we graded proved to be this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of C in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are likely most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.