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Morningstar Residential Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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17 Sunrise Terrace,
Oswego NY 13126

(315) 342-4790

91.25% estimated occupancy ¹

Morningstar Residential Care Center is one of four nursing homes in Oswego, New York. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically suggests some red flags. Unfortunately, this grade is not too far off the city grade for Oswego, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still may be able to do better Nevertheless, this facility did just fine in our inspections category, which you can read more about below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Sadly, this nursing home's second highest score is long-term care. However, with a D in this area, it still fared relatively badly. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. We were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 83.819626 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

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Short-term Care Quality

Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.

Nurse Quality

The last area we analyzed is nursing. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing rating assesses several components, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is significantly below the national average. In addition to its subpar nursing hours, this place received suboptimal marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this facility's patients experienced falls leading to major injury.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Morningstar Residential Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 6.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 4.77% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients that have suffered a fall resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 2.2% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 21.85% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 23.51% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 9.55% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may imply a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 91.91% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 14.29% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 21.09% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 21.09% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 13.58% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Morningstar Residential Care Center, 93.53% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation services.