Elderwood at Hornell

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a favorable long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.85387 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is this facility's poorest category. In computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.