Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center

Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center is located in Albany, New York, a city with a total of 151,022 people. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Albany received a city grade of B-, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

While this place's overall grade is not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is a decent score. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This turned out to be its second best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B-. Short-term care grades are often employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. It fared respectably with 47.4 percent of its residents returning home.

The next best area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. Our long-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.30747 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing grade of C. The nursing grade includes many subcategories, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is better than average. In determining our scores, we add more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in some of the areas we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often good indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.