Elderwood at Waverly
37 North Chemung Street, Waverly NY 14892 · (607) 565-2861 · 94.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Elderwood at Waverly is a large nursing home located in Waverly, New York. This nursing home turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. This nursing home truly has plenty of good features. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 200 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall performance, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.52459 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. In our short-term care score, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This place performed respectably with 46 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Our next area is nursing, in which we gave this nursing home a C in that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elderwood at Waverly Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different 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 prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better