Elderwood at Waverly

Elderwood at Waverly is a large nursing home located in Waverly, New York. This nursing home turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.52459 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

The next area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. In our short-term care score, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. 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. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This place performed respectably with 46 percent of its patients returning home.

Our next area is nursing, in which we gave this nursing home a C in that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.