Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehab
378 Syosset Woodbury Road, Woodbury NY 11797 · (516) 921-3900 · 91.58% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehab is a senior living facility located in Woodbury, New York, a city with 9,041 people. With an overall score of C, this appears to be a decent facility. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 606 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received favorable short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in this category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest grade. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We were impressed to find that this facility offers its residents significantly more hours of physical therapy than most other nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New York in this area with 58 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this facility only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 88.06584 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 1.92 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't as bad due to it having more complex patients. This was its best feature in this category
Nurse Quality
The next area we assessed was nursing, which ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. It received a lowly F in this area, which is certainly a major disappointment. There are a variety of data points within this category. Most of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
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
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better