Corning Specialty Care

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home also earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we looked at turned out to be this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of C for long-term care. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.93617 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.