Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center
1 Elsie Street, Rome NY 13440 · (315) 339-2220 · 93.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Rome, New York, Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center is one of five available nursing homes in the city. This is a well below average facility, with an overall grade of D. Rome received a city grade of B-, so there are some other options in the city worth considering. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection grade. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second best category was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our long-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.79845 percent of its residents. This is a few points less than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 1.98 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is also slightly below average.
Short-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 44.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home received a very poor grade here as well. It received an F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. In computing our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This facility also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better