Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
822 Cedar Avenue, Niagara Falls NY 14301 · (716) 282-1207 · 76.87% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Niagara Falls, New York, Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is one of just a few available nursing homes in the area. With an overall grade of D, this is a well below average facility. Keep in mind that Niagara Falls received a city grade of B, so should consider other options in the city as well. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection rating. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this facility's overall score, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many severe deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home received 4 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
This facility's next most favorable category was long-term care, but even there it earned just a D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.56896 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.94 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad due to it having some more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing grade includes many components, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. On top of receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored is short-term care, which ended up being a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a D for the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is considered to be a useful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 34.9 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Some believe that mobility is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better