Seneca Hill Manor

Seneca Hill Manor is in Oswego, New York. We gave this nursing home a quality overall grade of B+. After grading the other alternatives in Oswego, this appears to be a higher quality selection than the majority of them. This is an impressive achievement given that the city features some decent facilities. Based on our analysis, this place has quite a bit going for it. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was hit with 3 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 didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its superb short-term care grade. We gave them one of our strongest grades in that area, with a score of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This place fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 55.1 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we rated proved to be this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of C for our long-term care category. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 91.36126 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. Nevertheless, this facility 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 a remarkably low number.