Whitesboro Health and Rehabilitation Center

To pair with a favorable overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Building on its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an B+ for that category. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The third area we assessed is short-term care. This facility received a favorable short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This is this nursing home's weakest category. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of care provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.