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.

This facility's next best area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The final area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for individuals requiring more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.