Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains is a facility located in White Plains, New York, which has a population of 69,870 people. With an overall rating of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. Based on our assessment, this place looks like a solid choice for most people. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for inspections. Our inspection scores are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care score. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 95.51887 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
The final area we rated is nursing. We gave this facility a decent grade in this area, with a grade of C. While this is not as favorable as several of this facility's other grades, it is still a middle of the pack score. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, although this place didn't rank well in terms of its nursing hours per resident, it performed better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, this nursing home fared better than the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 6.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 3.07% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients who have suffered a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 1.05% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 10.32% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 12.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents that were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 72.95% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 96.44% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 16.07% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 12.79% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 12.79% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 7.23% of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Epic Rehabilitation and Nursing at White Plains, 87.5% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.