Finger Lakes Center for Living

Finger Lakes Center for Living is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Auburn, New York. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we looked at. In fact, it received our very best rating. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top ten percent of all facilities in the United States. Finally, this appears to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong grades in all four of the major categories. More information about its category grades can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility the nation in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning the page to our next category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a dominant grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered on top of this nursing home's impressive nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. This topped off an elite profile. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. This place outperformed the majority of facilities in the country with 53.6 percent of its residents returning home.