The Commons on St Anthony, a S N F & Short T R C

The Commons on St Anthony, a S N F & Short T R C is a very-large non-profit nursing home located in Auburn, New York. With an overall rating of B-, this looks like a solid facility. You could certainly do worse than this place. The best part of this place's report card was its remarkable inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facilities second most favorable area is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility performed better in this statistic. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 53.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The third area we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.97776 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

The final area we assessed is nursing. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. We assessed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also considered some quality-based measures. This place scored well in a few of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average.