Elderwood of Lakeside at Brockport

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it was given a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home was awarded a favorable short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B+. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to our last category, this facility received a respectable nursing score. While this is not as good as a few of its other grades, this is really not a bad grade. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.