Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is a very-large government-owned nursing home located in Albany, New York. Featuring an overall rating of C, this is a middle of the road nursing home. Based on our ratings, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Government - County
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Lymphedema Care
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This facility was hit with 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 the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home received its second highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 53.890823 percent of its patients. This is several points below average. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received its next most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is an acceptable score. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. This is clearly a major disappointment. Nursing ratings are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 12.43% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that suffer from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 7.78% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 1.41% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 2.41% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 18.52% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 4.82% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients showing symptoms of depression. High levels of depression may be a sign worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 75.52% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 16.65% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 14.47% of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 14.47% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 5.66% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Shaker Place Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 72.98% of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Albany, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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- St Peter's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.91 miles away315 South Manning Boulevard Albany New York 12208Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 525-1550
- Albany Medical Center HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.67 miles away43 New Scotland Avenue, Mail Code 34 Albany New York 12208Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 262-2400
- Samaritan Hospital-St Mary's CampusAcute Care Hospitals 6.93 miles away1300 Massachusetts Avenue Troy New York 12180Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 268-5000
- Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.21 miles away2215 Burdett Avenue Troy New York 12180Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 427-3402
- Ellis HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.37 miles away1101 Nott Street Schenectady New York 12308Voluntary non-profit - Private(518) 243-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- New York Dialysis Services, Inc.3.4 miles away30 Century Hill Dr Latham New York 12110Dialysis Stations: 12 (518) 783-1316
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- Fms-Capital District Dialysis Center6.47 miles away650 Mcclellan Street Schenectady New York 12304CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (518) 382-0202
- Albany Medical Center6.63 miles away43 New Scotland Avenue Mail Code: 73 Peds Dialysis Unit Albany New York 12208Dialysis Stations: 6 (518) 262-3347