Fort Hudson Nursing Center

Fort Hudson Nursing Center is a facility located in Fort Edward, New York. This city has 9,448 people. This nursing home is a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. You can certainly do much worse than this place. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our stronger scores in that category, with a grade of B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After we finished assessing the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.151 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home was awarded its third highest category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 44.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

The next category we looked at is nursing. This facility was given a B- for this category. The nursing score weighs many factors, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. 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 view these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.