Betsy Ross Rehabilitation Center

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

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.

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.

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.

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.