Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

Located in Minoa, New York, Onondaga Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is the only facility we identified in the city. With an overall rating of D, this is a well below average facility. This facility has very little working in its favor. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Even though we didn't give this facility a favorable overall score, we actually gave it a very strong score in the area of short-term care, where it earned a B+. Our short-term care grades are presumably most important for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed better than most facilities in the nation in this area with 55.7 percent of its residents returning home.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade considers a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. According to CMS records, this place averaged 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Keep in mind that when we calculate our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Finally, this nursing home was relatively weak in some of the areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is a more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home really didn't fare well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. This facility's vaccination records weren't as strong as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 64.94024 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Surprisingly, this nursing home was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.48 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had some more complex patients.