Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center
800 West Chestnut Street, Rome NY 13440 · (315) 339-3210 · 96.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Rome, New York. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Rome. The best part of this place's report card was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, it also received a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave this facility a score of A-. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.82006 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This facility was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.17 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is short-term care, where this facility received a B- in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. It performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 50.1 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored was nursing, ended up being this facility's weakest area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. This really is one of just a few weak links on an otherwise strong profile. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to its weak nursing hour totals, this facility received suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this place's residents experienced falls which led to serious injury.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better