The Pines Healthcare & Rehab Centers Olean Campus

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned top notch inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in this area, with a grade of A+. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.14286 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. The nursing score consists of quite a few datapoints, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home New York in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more often.

The final category we assessed was short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care, rendering this the nursing home's weakest area. Our short-term care scores are vital for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.