Seneca Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was given a favorable long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.19149 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our short-term care category. It was given an F in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Considering its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn this place provided far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

The last category we analyzed was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is a rock bottom score. This is certainly a major disappointment. The nursing grade weighs several subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.