Andrus on Hudson

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection score. Its inspection score was far better than its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next highest category turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 94.91279 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Switching gears to the fourth category, we gave this facility a D in our nursing category. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.