Amsterdam Nursing Home Corp (1992)

Amsterdam Nursing Home Corp (1992) is a very-large non-profit nursing home located in New York, New York. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the highest-graded facilities we looked at. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate marks across the board. New York features a host of other nursing homes, however, we doubt you will need to look at too many others. This one is a very fine option. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its inspection score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

On top of performing well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Contributing to its dominant profile, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a grade of A for that category. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any facility in New York in this area with 62 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 1.25 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

In the final area, this facility also was awarded a first-rate nursing score, with a grade of B+. This finished off an elite report card. There are a host of factors within this area. Most of these data points relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Approximately a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. These are both impressive figures, which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the country. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.