Williamsville Suburban

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second highest area turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.666664 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in that category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.9 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we rated was nursing. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. There are many factors included in this area. Many of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.