Susquehanna Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Johnson City, New York, Susquehanna Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is one of just a couple available nursing homes in the city. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a solid nursing home. Based on our assessment, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its stellar inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this nursing home a solid score in the area of long-term care, with a B-. In computing our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living received by a facility's residents. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.7619 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facilities next most favorable area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this area with 48.9 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our final area, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing. This is the nursing home's weakest category score. Nursing scores are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this nursing home also received poor marks in many of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that a higher percentage of this facility's patients experienced falls leading to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing grade.