Rest Haven-York

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this facility a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents even once per day.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. This facility received an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of B in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.51219 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a high-end short-term care rating. This nursing home didn't turn out to have any weak areas. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.