Schofield Residence

Schofield Residence is in Buffalo, New York. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 564,824 people. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Buffalo. In spite of Buffalo featuring 20 nursing homes to select from, this facility should be a fine option. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given a very positive long-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.462364 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.11 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our better scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this place's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found it offers at least 50% more hours of physical therapy than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country with 52.6 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to our fourth area, we gave this facility a D in the area of nursing. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. The nursing score includes quite a few data points, many of which are associated with nursing hours. According to CMS records, this place averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was actually above the national average. Keep in mind, however, that when we compute our nursing scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.