Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury
300 Grant Avenue, Lake Katrine NY 12449 · (845) 336-3500 · 94.14% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury is a very-large facility in Lake Katrine, New York. Sporting an overall grade of C, this is likely a decent facility. Based on our analysis, this facility has some redeeming qualities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 280 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received high marks in the category of long-term care, with top notch score of A- in this category. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.93939 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. There are numerous criteria within this category. Most of the datapoints reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. This facility also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed was short-term care. We gave it an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a major disappointment. In computing these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Considering its weak score in this category, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home offers substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 23.2 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better