D'youville Senior Care

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 83.47339 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for. 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 figure.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with a score of B+. Short-term care ratings are important for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the last category we looked at, we found that this facility received a solid government inspection report this year as well. As a result, it received a decent score in inspections with a score of B. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.