East Side Nursing Home

East Side Nursing Home is one of only two facilities located in Warsaw, New York. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the country. You simply can not do any better than this nursing home. Scroll down to find this facility's category grades, which are also quite good. It is hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

In addition to being an elite nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few facilities fared this well in this area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received an impressive long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B+. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.59091 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place performed decently , with 48.5 percent of its residents able to return home.

The final category we analyzed is nursing, where this facility was awarded a grade of B+. This rounded out a very favorable report card. Few facilities earned a B+ or higher in every single category. There are several data points included in this category. Most of the data points are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.