M M Ewing Continuing Care Center

M M Ewing Continuing Care Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Canandaigua, New York. With an overall score of A, it is the number one rated nursing home in Canandaigua. We flat out can't say enough favorable things about this place. If you look below, you will see this place's category grades, which are also impressive.

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Among its many elite scores, this facility was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. In our short-term care category, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This facility was satisfactory in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered a reasonable level of care from both physical therapists and registered nurses. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in the nation with 55.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home also performed admirably in our long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of B+ for that area. This topped off a very strong report card. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.938774 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.11 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.