Wingate of Dutchess
3 Summit Court, Fishkill NY 12524 · (845) 896-1500 · 85.62% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Wingate of Dutchess is in Fishkill, New York, a city with 15,598 people. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. This is just about as good of a place as you're going to find. This facility also received impressive scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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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
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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
Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is often an excellent sign. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in New York in this area with 62.5 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on our third category, this nursing home was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in that area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as strong as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 84.210526 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.79 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this place was just about middle of the road in this area.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home received an excellent nursing score. Although this was not quite as good as several of its other category grades, this is still one of our more favorable grades a facility can receive. There are quite a few factors within this area. Many of these subcategories reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wingate of Dutchess Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
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. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better