Alpine Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Alpine Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is the only facility we were able to find in Little Falls, New York. It looks like this is a good facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable grade. Based on our ratings, this nursing home has quite a bit going for it. The best part of this facility's impressive profile was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an B+. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.8 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.84 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home was given a grade of C for the category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is typically a solid assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 31.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.