Snyder Memorial Health Care Ce

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall score, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care rating. This is not an impressive grade. In computing these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With a grade this poor for this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility was well below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it supplied far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last item we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.

The final category we graded was long-term care. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is a very poor score. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this facility gave the vaccine to only 90.64327 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.