Richmond Center for Rehab and Specialty Healthcare

Richmond Center for Rehab and Specialty Healthcare is a very-large nursing home located in Staten Island, New York. With an overall rating of B+, this facility proved to be a better option than most of the nursing homes in Staten Island. You could definitely do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories is available below.

This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive grades in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our most favorable scores in that category with a area of A. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the well above average quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's vaccination record. By way of example, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.83457 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. While it had 3.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was middle of the road due to it having some more complicated patients.

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.6 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The last area we scored is nursing. We awarded this facility a decent score in this area, with a B-. Although this isn't on par with some of its other scores, it is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. We assessed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides an impressive 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in New York. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.