Corning Specialty Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A for this category, which is one of our best grades. Inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Building on its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing. We awarded it an B+ for that category. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to our next area, we gave this nursing home a D in long-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category rating. Unfortunately, this score hurt the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.