York Healthcare & Wellness Centre

This nursing home's overall score was bolstered by the fact that it has received favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better scores in this area, with a B+. This is a notably better grade than the nursing home's overall score. Our inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility's short-term care grade is one of its more favorable grades. The nursing home was given a grade of B- in this area. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility received a respectable long-term care grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of nursing services. This includes a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.