Cortland Place

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall score would have been much lower. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home actually earned a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a B-. We were surprised this nursing home received multiple category grades of this caliber. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. The nursing grade consists of several datapoints, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home didn't perform very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is its poorest category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 94.849785 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.