Fox Run at Orchard Park

Fox Run at Orchard Park is a small non-profit nursing home located in Orchard Park, New York. With an overall rating of A, this is without a doubt a top-shelf facility. You flat out can not do any better than this place. If you scroll down, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also quite good.

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection rating. This score is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its strong assessment, this facility also was awarded a dominant long-term care grade, with a score of A-. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 49.45652 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on our next area, this facility received an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home boosted its grade in this area by offering more than 1.5 times as many physical therapy hours than the typical facility. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In the last category we graded, this facility was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed an elite report card. Nursing scores are largely associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.