Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns is an average-sized nursing home in Tonawanda, New York. Sporting an overall score of C, this looks like a middle of the pack nursing home. Based on our analysis, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. This nursing home didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories is available below.
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Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this is a decent nursing home is that it received a favorable inspection grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our long-term care category. This is one of our more impressive scores. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.278915 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
The last area we rated was nursing, is this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this area. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 15.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 5.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. More frequent bathing can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 20.32% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 28.37% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 11.51% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 95.2% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 17.71% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 12.04% of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 12.04% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 14.62% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Safire Rehabilitation of Northtowns, 71.03% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Kenmore Mercy HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.47 miles away2950 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo New York 14217Voluntary non-profit - Church(716) 447-6100
- Erie County Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.73 miles away462 Grider Street Buffalo New York 14215Voluntary non-profit - Private(716) 898-3936
- Sisters of Charity HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.74 miles away2157 Main Street Buffalo New York 14214Voluntary non-profit - Private(716) 862-1000
- Kaleida HealthAcute Care Hospitals 5.89 miles away100 High Street Buffalo New York 14210Voluntary non-profit - Private(716) 859-8620
- Mercy Hospital of BuffaloAcute Care Hospitals 9.29 miles away565 Abbott Road Buffalo New York 14220Voluntary non-profit - Private(716) 826-7000
- Western Ny Childrens Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 11.31 miles away1010 East & West Road Buffalo New York 14224Government - State(716) 677-7000
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.51 miles away621 Tenth Street Niagara Falls New York 14302Voluntary non-profit - Other(716) 278-4000
- Mount St Mary's Hospital and Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.68 miles away5300 Military Road Lewiston New York 14092Voluntary non-profit - Church(716) 297-4800
Nearby Dialysis
- Us Renal Care Amherst Dialysis0.13 miles away2880, Sheridan Dr Tonawanda New York 14150Dialysis Stations: 13 (716) 541-9165
- Us Renal Care Tonawanda Dialysis1.55 miles away3161 Eggert Road Tonawanda New York 14150CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (716) 832-0159
- Davita Northtowns Dialysis Center2.4 miles away4041 Delaware Avenue Ste 150 Tonawanda New York 14150CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (716) 871-8103
- Fms-Kenmore Artificial Kidney Center2.74 miles away1508 Sheridan Drive Buffalo New York 14217CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (716) 871-9988
- Davita Cleve Hill Dialysis Center2.98 miles away1461 Kensington Avenue Buffalo New York 14215CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (716) 831-8892
- Davita Suburban Dialysis3.5 miles away705 Maple Road Suite 600 Buffalo New York 14221CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (716) 630-6640
- Liberty Rc, Inc.3.58 miles away699 Hertel Ave Buffalo New York 14207Dialysis Stations: 17 (716) 871-4172
- Erie County Medical Center3.86 miles away462 Grider Street Dialysis Unit Buffalo New York 14215Dialysis Stations: 36 (716) 898-1400