Uptown Rehabilitation Center is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This nursing home proved to be a decent facility, with an overall grade of B-. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Albuquerque. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its impressive nursing grade, which is addressed in the next section.
Uptown Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Amputee Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also wanted to point out that this facility was given favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second strongest grade. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is considered to be a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
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Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, it appears this nursing home has received respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was long-term care, is this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. This is one of the few dings of a strong report card. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.26599 percent of its residents, which is a few points less than we were hoping for. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Uptown Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 8.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 3.08% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who have suffered a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 1.47% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that had UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 16.78% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 13.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 3.19% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 88.36% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 16.72% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 18.98% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 1.28 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 18.98 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 15.18 Percentage of Patients
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.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Uptown Rehabilitation Center, 65.79% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Albuquerque, NM
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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