Katherine Luther Residential Hlth Care & Rehab
110 Utica Road, Clinton NY 13323 · (315) 853-5515 · 84.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Katherine Luther Residential Hlth Care & Rehab is a very-large non-profit nursing home in Clinton, New York. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. This facility is about as bad as it gets. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 280 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
We were also stunned to discover that this facility earned a somewhat respectable long-term care score this year. We awarded it a B- in this area. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 46.635185 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we expected. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility is also below average.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second worse category is short-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility a bit in this area as well, with just 48.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home didn't perform well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. The nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This place offered just 2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. To pair with its low total nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had bad scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Katherine Luther Residential Hlth Care & Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better