Emerald North Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
1205 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo NY 14209 · (716) 885-3838 · 97.68% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Emerald North Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Buffalo, New York which has 564,824 people. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 20 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection reports. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 95 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this place a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B for our inspections rating. This was the result of the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most respectable score was short-term care, but it still earned just a D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. In this place's case, we found that it offers far less registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. Given its score in this area, this did not surprise us. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 40 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. The nursing rating features several factors. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This place provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. This facility also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this area also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 21.036587 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 2.74 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Emerald North Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits 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 is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing depressive symptoms. Some experts believe this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better