Plattsburgh Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this facility was awarded strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second strongest grade. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility was given its third most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is an acceptable score. Our long-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of care. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 76.53846 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home was awarded a C for the area. When determining our nursing scores, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, while this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this metric.