Houghton Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

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9876 Luckey Drive, Houghton NY 14744 · (585) 567-2207 · 91.1% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese

Houghton Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Houghton, New York. This is a subpar facility, with an overall grade of D. This isn't the worse nursing home we found, but we'd still struggle to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Additional Details:

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For profit - Corporation

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Family Council: FalseUsed to indicate false.

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)

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Medical Staff
Therapy Staff

Facility Inspections

A+
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Historical

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. 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

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We also awarded this nursing home a positive score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this area, which is one of our higher scores. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.79518 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

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The next category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home's received an unfortunate short-term care score where it received an F. Our short-term care scores are critical for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 37.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

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The next area we rated is nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in this area. Our nursing score is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. With a meager 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

Overall Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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Provider:
D
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B
National:
B
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Overall Rating
Nurse Rating
Long-Term Rating
Short-Term Rating
Inspection Rating

Houghton Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Provider
B-
8.04%
State
B-
8.47%
National
B
7.32%

Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better

Minimizes Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Provider
B-
3.92%
State
B+
2.91%
National
B
3.36%

Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Provider
A-
0.92%
State
B+
2.21%
National
B
2.65%

Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Provider
C
19.3%
State
B+
11.1%
National
B
14.17%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are generally prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Provider
B-
23.38%
State
A-
13.33%
National
B
19.66%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Managing Depression Among Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Provider
A+
0%
State
B
7.09%
National
B+
5.08%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

This indicates the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Provider
B+
98.8%
State
B
93.26%
National
B
92.05%

Percent of Patients
Higher is Better

Residents Maintain Autonomy

This indicates the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a resident's health.

Provider
D
23.29%
State
B+
13.31%
National
B
14.46%

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

This tells you the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Provider
A-
21.66%
State
B-
15.38%
National
B
17.09%

Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better

Hospitalizations

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Provider
A
0.96
State
B+
1.46
National
B
1.70

Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.

Provider
C
21.66
State
B+
15.38
National
B
17.09

Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Provider
A
6.13
State
B+
8.22
National
B
10.25

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Provider
B-
67.5%
State
B
69.8%
National
B
68.05%

Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better

Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=335641
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