Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Three Rivers

Absolut Center for Nursing & Rehab Three Rivers is a facility in Painted Post, New York, which has 9,821 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of D. A score in this range generally indicates a few red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Painted Post. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider 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.

One of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In our short-term care rating, we try to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place performed decently in this area, with 45.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility's second least favorable category was long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 84.61539 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.91 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. Nursing grades are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.