Skies Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
9150 Mcmahon Boulevard Nw, Albuquerque NM 87114 · (505) 898-7986 · 85.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Skies Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 641,349 people. This is a decent facility with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Albuquerque. Even in a city with 19 other nursing homes, this nursing home looks like a fine selection. One of the highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive short-term care score, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this facility's overall score would have been much lower. In forming our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New Mexico in this area with 62 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents return home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, 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 metrics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third most favorable area is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. Long-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents requiring non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to only 81.410255 percent of its patients, which is a bit of a concern. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes since it had some more complicated patients.
Facility Inspections
In the final category of government inspections, we gave this nursing home just a D for our inspection category. This proved to be its worst category grade, particularly in light of some of the more impressive scores discussed above. Nevertheless, since this data is compiled by an independent government inspector, we weight it heavily in our assessment. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 4 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Skies Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
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.
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.
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.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better