Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is in Syracuse, New York. The city has a population of 229,807 people. This facility received a bottom of the barrel overall rating based on the data we assessed. In our view, you would be better off to steer clear of this place. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Audiology
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an C. Our nursing score consists of quite a few components, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.
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Long-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this facility only earned a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is not one of our better scores. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 80.17174 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we graded is short-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a poor grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Considering its weak score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 9.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 3.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 2.1% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 11.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 13.3% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 13.2% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 91.26% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 14.75% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 17.32% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 17.32 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 8.8 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing, 75.07% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Scores for Syracuse, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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