Elderwood at Liverpool

Elderwood at Liverpool is a large nursing home located in Liverpool, New York. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is among the top scores that we offer. A score in this range requires excellent marks across the board. As far as we can see, this facility looks like a great choice for most people. This nursing home also received phenomenal scores in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Adding to its strong resume, this nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care score, with a grade of A-. In our short-term care category, we seek to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 57.3 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically corresponds with quality care. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Switching gears to the last category, this facility received a high-end long-term care score. Even though this was not as impressive as several of its other scores, this is still one of the more impressive scores we offer. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. This nursing home's vaccination records were a bit weaker than some of the other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.243904 percent of its patients. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.9 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.