York Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center

York Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center is located in Yorktown, Virginia. This city has a total of 45,297 people. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. This facility didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. Additional information about these categories is available below.

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facilities second most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It was respectable in this area with 48 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. When determining a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We especially like to look at the percentage of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these issues.

The last category we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be a low point for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.72 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.