Schuyler Care and Rehabilitation Center, Ll

In addition to receiving a quality overall score, this nursing home also earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that area, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our third area, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.666664 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we rated is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B+. This completed a very strong profile. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or higher in every single category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.