Grace Care Center of Henrietta

The primary reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this facility was given favorable long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a solid score in the area of short-term care, with a grade of C. Short-term care scores are vital for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The last area we assessed was nursing, ended up being this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This really was one of the couple of dings in an otherwise impressive profile. The nursing score consists of several data points, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.