Wingate at Beacon
10 Hastings Drive, Beacon NY 12508 · (845) 440-1600 · 86.18% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Beacon, New York, Wingate at Beacon is one of just a couple available nursing homes in the city. This facility received an A- overall, which is one of the best scores we offer. A score in this range requires first-rate scores across the board. You really can't do any better than this facility. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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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
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. In determining these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in New York in this area with 63 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received a high-end long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its third most impressive category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 78.80659 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.76 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this category, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Nurse Quality
The final area we rated is nursing. We gave this facility a solid grade in that area, with a grade of B-. While this is not as high as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. Our nursing grade includes several factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wingate at Beacon Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients showing signs of depression. High rates of depression could reveal a lower level of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you 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 tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand 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 residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better