Jamestown Nursing and Rehab

On top of having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

This facility also was awarded a favorable long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave it a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our better. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 90.60914 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating includes a handful of components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a patient at least once a day.

The final category we looked at was short-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.