Hornell Gardens

To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this place an A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other accomplishments is its first-rate long-term care grade. It received one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility's third best area is its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we graded is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Of course, this category pulled down the facility's overall grade to some degree. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.