Finger Lakes Health

Finger Lakes Health is a very-large hospital-based facility located in Geneva, New York. This is a very respectable nursing home. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a quality rating. Based on our assessment, this place is a solid choice for most people. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection scores 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 facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was awarded a very positive short-term care grade. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return to the community. We found that this nursing home was above average with 54.9 percent of its residents able to return home.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better scores in that area, with a score of B. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.14371 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. We gave this facility a C in this area. Our nursing grade analyzes several data points, many of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provides only 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Finally, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care.