Fishkill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
22 Robert R. Kasin Way, Beacon NY 12508 · (845) 831-8704 · 94.37% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Fishkill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is a large nursing home located in Beacon, New York. Our grading system was not favorable to this facility, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Beacon. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it an A- for our inspections score. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even with this deficiency, this place still had a relatively favorable report.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second most respectable category was long-term care, but it still earned just a D in that area. This still happens to be a well below average score. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.812744 percent of its patients, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is not nearly as favorable than its vaccination record.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 36.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
The final area we scored was nursing. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fishkill Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage 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 residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of 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 indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better