Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it earned an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its top-shelf long-term care grade. It received one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.17073 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this facility 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.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 nursing home New York in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

The last area we rated is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a decent grade of B-. This is this nursing home's weakest area. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.