Regency Extended Care Center

Regency Extended Care Center is a very-large nursing home located in Yonkers, New York. This is a very respectable facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable score. In fact, we found this facility to be better than the majority of the nursing homes in Yonkers, which has a city grade of B-. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A+ for this category, which is one of our best grades. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.02664 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the senior population. This nursing home was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.83 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place offers 3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled nurses. In determining our nursing grades, we attach more weight to hours performed by registered nurses. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. We gave it a C in that category. This is a fair grade in this category. In crafting these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 23.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents return home so this facility is below average.