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Elderwood at North Creek

Nursing Home
Adult Day Care

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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112 Ski Bowl Road,
North Creek NY 12853

(518) 251-2447

69.87% estimated occupancy ¹

Elderwood at North Creek is an average-sized nursing home located in North Creek, New York. This nursing home was given an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a well below average grade. Based on our ratings, this facility may not be the best fit for most prospective residents. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Palliative Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Lymphedema Care

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Facility Inspections

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it received an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This facility received its next most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. Our long-term care grades are more important for residents needing more traditional services associated with personal care. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.409325 percent of its residents. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Short-term Care Quality

This facility wound up receiving a a terrible grade in our short-term care area. It received an F in this area. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Nurse Quality

The final category we looked at is nursing, where this facility was given a poor grade in this category also. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. The nursing score assesses many data points, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Elderwood at North Creek Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Elderwood at North Creek, 9.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents which suffered from pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Elderwood at North Creek, 3.11% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay patients that sustained falls which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Elderwood at North Creek, 2.03% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Elderwood at North Creek, 12.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Elderwood at North Creek, 13.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Elderwood at North Creek, 13.75% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term residents who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Elderwood at North Creek, 90.38% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Elderwood at North Creek, 15.3% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Elderwood at North Creek, 14.12% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Elderwood at North Creek, 1.46 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Elderwood at North Creek, 14.12 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Elderwood at North Creek, 9.74 Percentage of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Elderwood at North Creek, 75.23% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.