Fort Hudson Nursing Center is a senior living facility located in Fort Edward, New York, a city with 9,448 people. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. This nursing home seems to have a few things going for it. The best part of this place's report card is its remarkable inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Fort Hudson Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
- Home Health Agency
- Independent Living
- Contracted Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 93.333336 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given its next best category grade in the area of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this area, which is an acceptable grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's least impressive category was nursing, which is the last area we analyzed. For this area, we awarded this nursing home a D. In computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fort Hudson Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 9.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have sustained a fall leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 2.1% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 11.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 13.3% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 13.2% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression may imply a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 91.26% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 14.75% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 17.32% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 17.32 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 8.8 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fort Hudson Nursing Center, 75.07% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.