Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is the only nursing home located in Montgomery, New York. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a good rating. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this facility's profile was its exemplary inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was awarded a strong score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 62.099125 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for. Fortunately, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was given a C in short-term care, which is a respectable score. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 35.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.