St Josephs Place
160 East Main Street, Port Jervis NY 12771 · (845) 856-5351 · 93.69% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Port Jervis, New York, St Josephs Place is the lone facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall score of A+, this facility is clearly a superb nursing home. In addition, this facility is also located in a hospital, which often means the nursing home offers a wider array of healthcare services. If you scroll down, you will see this facility's category scores, which appear to be just as impressive as its overall score.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 46 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually perfect. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Among its many elite grades, this facility was awarded first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this category. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this place provides approximately 1.5 times as many hours of services from registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we assessed. This is generally an excellent sign. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this area with 56.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. In computing our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides an impressive 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Of this total, more than one fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in determining our nursing scores. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.
Long-term Care Quality
In the final category we looked at, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of A in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility topped off a straight A report card. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 94.96403 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Josephs Place Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have had falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating signs of depression. Increased levels of depression may reveal lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better