The Paramount at Somers Rehab and Nursing Center

The Paramount at Somers Rehab and Nursing Center is a very-large nursing home located in Somers, New York. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some respectable marks. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home was awarded its second highest category score in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it fared better than most facilities in the nation with 51.8 percent of its residents returning home.

The third area we graded was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to the facility's residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 90.79365 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly less than average. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

The last area we looked at was nursing, which is this facility's worst area. We gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Our nursing score includes quite a few data points, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged just 3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with good marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.