Northern Westchester Hospital T C U

Northern Westchester Hospital T C U is a very-small non-profit nursing home in Mount Kisco, New York. Featuring an overall score of A, this is undoubtedly a world class facility. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the top 100 facilities in New York. This is an impressive feat in a state with a long list of high-end facilities. This nursing home also received very consistent scores in each of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Only a select group of facilities fared better in this area. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this area with 66.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents return home.

This nursing home also was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. This topped off a very favorable report card. The nursing grade is based on a variety of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.