Samaritan Keep Nursing Home

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133 Pratt St, Watertown NY 13601 · (315) 785-4400 · 97.02% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese

Samaritan Keep Nursing Home is in Watertown, New York. The city has a population of 47,918 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a solid grade. We also wanted to point out that this place is located in a hospital. Typically, this means that more intensive healthcare services are offered. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

Additional Details:

Accepts Medicare 1 : TrueA checkmark indicating true.

Accepts Medicaid 1 : 272 Beds TrueA checkmark indicating true.

CCRC : FalseUsed to indicate false.

Non profit - Corporation

Resident Council: TrueA checkmark indicating true.

Family Council: TrueA checkmark indicating true.

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)

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Medical Staff
Therapy Staff

Facility Inspections

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To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than its overall rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Long-term Care Quality

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We also gave this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This nursing home received a B in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.134384 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.37 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

Nurse Quality

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This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. The nursing score assesses several factors, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. According to CMS records, this facility averaged 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing grades, we add more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of training. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place was above average in several of the major datapoints we assessed, including minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These datapoints are usually accurate measures of the quality of nursing care available.

Short-term Care Quality

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Turning to our final area, this nursing home really did not perform very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was its weakest category. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 22.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Overall Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Aug 20
Provider:
C
State:
B
National:
B
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Overall Rating
Nurse Rating
Long-Term Rating
Short-Term Rating
Inspection Rating

Samaritan Keep Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

This measures the percentage of long-term residents who have pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.

Provider
B+
6.1%
State
B-
8.47%
National
B
7.33%

Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better

Minimizes Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Provider
A-
1.98%
State
B+
2.91%
National
B
3.36%

Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents which have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Provider
C
4.33%
State
B+
2.21%
National
B
2.65%

Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.

Provider
C
19.82%
State
B+
11.1%
National
B
14.18%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Provider
A
11.73%
State
A-
13.33%
National
B
19.67%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Managing Depression Among Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients showing signs of depression.

Provider
C
6.55%
State
B
7.09%
National
B+
5.09%

Percent of Patients
Lower is Better

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Provider
B
98.21%
State
B
93.26%
National
B
92.04%

Percent of Patients
Higher is Better

Residents Maintain Autonomy

This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Provider
C
19.71%
State
B+
13.31%
National
B
14.47%

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.

Provider
A+
36.37%
State
B-
15.38%
National
B
17.09%

Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better

Hospitalizations

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Provider
B
1.62
State
B+
1.46
National
B
1.70

Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Provider
F
36.37
State
B+
15.38
National
B
17.09

Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: ER Visits

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Provider
A
5.75
State
B+
8.22
National
B
10.26

Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Provider
B
70.84%
State
B
69.8%
National
B
68.04%

Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better

Nearby Hospitals

Samaritan Medical Center 0.09 mi
830 Washington Street Watertown New York 13601
(315) 785-4121
Acute Care Hospitals
Voluntary non-profit - Private
Carthage Area Hospital, Inc 15.81 mi
1001 West Street Carthage New York 13619
(315) 493-1000
Critical Access Hospitals
Voluntary non-profit - Private

Nearby Dialysis

Renal Care of Northern New York, LLC 1.22 mi
CMS Rating: 4 stars
Dialysis Stations: 24
22571 Summit Dr. Suite 1 Watertown New York 13601
(315) 779-2140

Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=335431
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