Throgs Neck Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
707 Throgs Neck Expressway, Bronx NY 10465 · (718) 430-0003 · 96.78% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 205 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Throgs Neck Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients 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 the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better