Silvercrest
144 45 87th Avenue, Jamaica NY 11435 · (718) 480-4026 · 99.37% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Jamaica, New York, Silvercrest is one of six available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road grade. The nursing homes in Jamaica received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 320 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also was given a favorable score in our long-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.332375 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of residents.
Short-term Care Quality
The third area we looked at is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of C. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in this area with 49.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the last category, this facility did not perform well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's poorest area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Roughly a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are among the more highly skilled nurses. These are both above average figures, so the problem here wasn't the quantity of care. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this facility's nursing grade substantially.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Silvercrest Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients which have sustained UTI's. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better