Fordham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Fordham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a very-large facility located in Bronx, New York. We awarded this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This grade isn't too far off the city grade for Bronx, which is a B-. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it a B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 87.0229 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a decent figure. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. While it had 2.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the national average due to it having more complicated patients.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This place offered only 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in two of the major areas we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we graded is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a significant concern. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. With its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 27.8 percent of its residents returning home.