St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility
555 East Market Street, Elmira NY 14902 · (607) 733-6541 · 94.7% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility is one of just two nursing homes in Elmira, New York. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. In addition, this facility is also located in a hospital, which can often mean the facility offers more extensive healthcare services. The best part of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 85 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing grade considers numerous datapoints. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based measures. This place fared well in a few of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
This facilities next most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a C in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.37681 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
Our final area is short-term care, in which we gave this facility a grade of C in that area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a solid assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 31.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This measures the percent of long-term care residents who experienced a fall which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better