The Grand Rehabilitation and Nrsg at Chittenango

The Grand Rehabilitation and Nrsg at Chittenango is an average-sized nursing home located in Chittenango, New York. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Chittenango. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care grade and that actually turned out to be its next most favorable category. In forming these short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Not surprisingly based on its grade in this category, this place was subpar in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied substantially fewer registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 43.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is well below average in this category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 82.745094 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this place had 2.33 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

The next area we looked at is nursing. We gave it an F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This place averaged just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.