Yorktown Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
2300 Catherine Street, Cortlandt Manor NY 10567 · (914) 739-2244 · 60% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Yorktown Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is located in Cortlandt Manor, New York, a city with a population of 19,929 people. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive grades. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 200 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
To add to its impressive performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care score. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.39528 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.22 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
Compounding its high-end profile, this nursing home also received a superb short-term care grade, with a score of A-. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is often a reliable assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 58.8 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we assessed is nursing. This nursing home received an impressive nursing score this year, with a C. While this wasn't quite as good as many of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade in this area. The nursing rating is based on many subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is better than average. In determining our grades, we add additional weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, our nursing scores also include quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Yorktown Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients that suffered from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that have sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
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 the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better