Ostrander Care and Rehab

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A-. Few facilities fared better in that category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home was awarded impressive marks in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with a score of A-. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

The final area we scored was long-term care, where this nursing home received a B-. Although this ended up being its poorest category score, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 92.85714 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.