D'youville Center for Advance Therapy

One of the many reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this very important category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Among its many elite grades, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's third best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective 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 residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our last area, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that category. This completed a very strong profile. Our nursing grade features a number of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a resident more frequently.