The Ambassador Sidney

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. The nursing score is based on quite a few factors, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, while this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic.

Turning to our next category, we gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. This is the facility's worst category score. Naturally, this category hurt the facility's overall grade a bit. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.76316 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.