Sidney Care and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home's nursing rating was notably more impressive than its overall score. With a strong performance in this category, it earned a quality score in nursing with a B+. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's next highest category was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 68.75 percent of its residents. This is multiple points lower than average. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility's next highest category was its short-term care grade, where it received a C. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The final category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this nursing home's overall score quite a bit. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This facility was assessed multiple category G through L deficiencies, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 18 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.