York Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is actually one of its more favorable category scores. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a very poor score in this area also. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 82.71028 percent of its patients. This is significantly lower than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.