Located in Elmira, New York, St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility is one of only two facilities there. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive grades. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.
St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
555 East Market Street,
Elmira NY 14902
78.82% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility earned an excellent inspection report. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was given a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. 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. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place performed better than most facilities in this area with 51.1 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the next area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care score. Although this is not quite as good as many of its other category grades, this is still not a major area of concern. Our long-term care scores are more critical for those needing more traditional services related to activities of daily living. This nursing home's vaccination data were not as impressive as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 58.46154 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.64% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that have had a fall which caused severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 2.09% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 11.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 13.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 13.02% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 92.45% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.69% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 18.9% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.2 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 18.9 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 8.78 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Joseph's Hospital - Skilled Nursing Facility, 74.53% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
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