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St Luke Residential Health Care Facility

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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299 East River Road,
Oswego NY 13126

(315) 342-3166

76.8% estimated occupancy ¹

St Luke Residential Health Care Facility is a large non-profit nursing home located in Oswego, New York. Featuring an overall rating of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Oswego. The city has just three other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Secure Memory Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive grades. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

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Long-term Care Quality

Sadly, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 78.42779 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Nurse Quality

The next category we scored is nursing. It received a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

St Luke Residential Health Care Facility Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 14.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 6.03% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that had a fall leading to severe injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 3.97% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 16.73% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 22.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 7.23% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 88.53% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 25% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 19.41% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that maintained mobility. Many argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 19.41% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 12.33% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In St Luke Residential Health Care Facility, 84.44% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation.