Fort Tryon Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
801 W 190th St, New York NY 10040 · (212) 543-6400 · 96.04% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Fort Tryon Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is a very-large facility located in New York, New York. With an overall score of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. We wanted to point out that New York received a city grade of B+, so you may want to look at some other options in the city as well. The best part of this facility's report card is its exemplary inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 205 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a strong long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 86.03604 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 2.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility just a D for our short-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. 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. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 44.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
The final category we scored is nursing, which turned out to be this facility's worst category. We gave it an F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. The nursing grade considers a number of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is well below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fort Tryon Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better