Elizabeth Church Manor Nursing Home

Elizabeth Church Manor Nursing Home is one of four available nursing homes in Binghamton, New York. After receiving an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we assessed. We can't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its ratings are as good as they get. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this facility surpassed the national average. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents 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 typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. It outperformed most nursing homes in the nation in this area with 50.5 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility was given a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This facility's vaccination records weren't as favorable as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 68.43373 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.92 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.