Capstone Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

With an address in Amsterdam, New York, Capstone Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. This is a quality nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good score. We actually ranked it as the top facility in Amsterdam. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.06976 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is based on many subcategories, however, the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place New York in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more often.

The final category we rated is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. This facility ended up being strong in all areas we analyzed. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. It fared better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 53.6 percent of its residents returning home.