Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation looks like it is one of 44 nursing homes located in Bronx, New York. The city has far more options to choose from compared to most areas in New York. Sporting an overall score of A-, it is one of the five best facilities in the city. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong here. As you can find below, this facility also performed well in our category scores. It's hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.
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Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Hemodialysis
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its dominant resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B. This actually turned out to be this facility's weakest area. A facility is doing something right when their lowest grade still is superior to most other nursing homes. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a reliable indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that experienced a fall leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 5.24% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who suffered from a UTI. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 6.76% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 11.98% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 6.7% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 99.62% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 9.41% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 20.38% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 20.38% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.23% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation, 91.57% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Bronx, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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