Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center is a senior living facility located in Rome, New York, which has a total of 43,037 people. This nursing home turns out to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of B-. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its stellar inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A+. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given impressive long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in this category, with a B+. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.07692 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. There are a variety of factors included in this grade. Most of these criteria reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we rated was short-term care, which is this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to some degree. Short-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 9.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are an indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 2.1% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 11.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 13.3% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 13.2% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 91.26% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 14.75% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 17.32% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 17.32 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 8.8 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center, 75.07% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Scores for Rome, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Rome, New York has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Rome Memorial Hospital, IncAcute Care Hospitals 0.66 miles away1500 North James Street Rome New York 13440Voluntary non-profit - Private(315) 338-7000
- Mohawk Valley Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 13.31 miles away1400 Noyes St Utica New York 13502Government - Local(315) 797-6800
- St Elizabeth Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14.03 miles away2209 Genesee Street Utica New York 13501Voluntary non-profit - Private(315) 798-8100
- Oneida Health HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.99 miles away321 Genesee Street Oneida New York 13421Voluntary non-profit - Other(315) 363-6000
Nearby Dialysis
- Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare - Rome1.64 miles away91 Perimeter Rd-Griffiss Park Rome Dialysis Clinic Rome New York 13440CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (315) 334-4786
- Faxton-St. Lukes Healthcare13.99 miles away1676 Sunset Ave Utica New York 13502CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (315) 624-5660
- Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare14.07 miles away131 Main Street Suite 101 Oneida New York 13421Dialysis Stations: 8 (315) 366-0360
- Fslh-St. Luke's Home Renal Dialysis14.4 miles away1650 Champlain Avenue Utica New York 13502Dialysis Stations: 8 (315) 624-8998
- Utica Partners LLC14.66 miles away2142 Glenwood Shopping Plaza Oneida New York 13421Dialysis Stations: 8 (315) 363-1393
- Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare - Masonic16.56 miles away2150 Bleeker Street Utica New York 13501Dialysis Stations: 20 (315) 724-3897