Yorktown Manor

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid places that have a long list of severe deficiencies. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which turns out to be one of its more respectable category scores. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not a very good score. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.53704 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The next category we graded is nursing. This facility was given an abysmal grade of F in that area. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.