Albany County Nursing Home
780 Albany Shaker Road, Albany NY 12211 · (518) 869-2231 · 76.27% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Albany County Nursing Home is a very-large government-owned facility in Albany, New York. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Albany. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 250 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that category, with an A. This is a notably better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable grades. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 87.642044 percent of its residents. This is a bit lower than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Nurse Quality
One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This facility provided just 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, although this nursing home didn't rank well in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed much better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to our last category, this facility was awarded a grade of C in short-term care, which is generally a decent grade. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 35.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Albany County Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better