Rosa Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary

Rosa Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary is one of just a couple facilities located in Getzville, New York. Sporting an overall grade of B, this facility is a fine option. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

This nursing home received a favorable long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.918365 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is more often than not a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 52.3 percent of its residents returning home.

Turning to the fourth category, this facility was awarded a grade of B- in nursing, which we consider to be an acceptable rating. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. According to its CMS reports, this nursing home provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was above average. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area. This is generally a reliable indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses and superior safety protocols are in place.