Throgs Neck Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

Throgs Neck Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is in Bronx, New York. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a population of 1,382,480 people. This turns out to be a respectable facility, with an overall grade of C. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Bronx, which is a B-. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility received its next most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Our long-term care grades are important for prospective residents needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.55319 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's next most favorable area is its short-term care score, where it was given a grade of B-. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed most nursing homes in this metric with 57.8 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility did not fare very well. With a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is its weakest grade. The nursing score consists of several subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. With only 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This place was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.