Susquehanna Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
282 Riverside Dr, Johnson City NY 13790 · (607) 729-9206 · 97.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
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.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Susquehanna Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better