Snyder Village

Although we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we actually awarded it a somewhat respectable score in the category of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was better than its other category grades. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident more often.

This facility's next highest area came in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be most important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a decent long-term care score of B-. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care instead of the skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 98.35526 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.