Cortland Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

    193 Clinton Ave, Cortland, NY 13045
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.89·(35)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.4
    • Staff

      3.9
    • Meals

      2.4
    • Amenities

      3.0
    • Value

      3.9

    Pros

    • Strong physical and occupational therapy program
    • Caring and attentive nursing and caregiving staff
    • Supportive nurse management and advanced-practice clinicians
    • Responsive, hands-on social work and case management
    • Engaging activities and recreational programming
    • Variety in dining and generally acceptable food quality
    • Clean and orderly common areas
    • Comfortable outdoor spaces, gardens, and patio
    • Pet visits and pet-friendly environment
    • Smooth intake and admissions experience
    • Frequent physician and clinical follow-up
    • Positive post-stroke and short-term rehabilitation outcomes

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staffing levels, especially on weekends
    • Gaps in staff coordination and shift-to-shift communication
    • Weak transportation and resident-transfer protocols
    • Safety-protocol lapses and inconsistent supervision
    • Variable direct-care staff competence and conduct
    • Delays in responding to call bells and care requests
    • Medication-management and symptom control
    • Inconsistent therapy scheduling and premature therapy discharge
    • Inadequate personal-property and laundry-management controls
    • Sanitation and odor concerns in some areas
    • Dietary management not consistently individualized for chronic conditions
    • Limited private-room availability and noisy shared-room environments
    • Variable administrative communication and billing coordination
    • Facility maintenance and cosmetic-update needs
    • Limited visitor parking and access logistics

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a facility with notable clinical strengths alongside recurring operational weaknesses. The rehabilitation and therapy teams receive consistent praise for effective post-acute care and measurable functional improvements. Families also highlighted a number of engaged clinical leaders, a hands-on social work presence, regular physician follow-up, and staff members who provided warm, attentive care. Recreational programming, outdoor spaces and pet visits are mentioned as positive contributors to quality of life, and many reviewers described a generally clean and orderly presentation in common areas.

    Care and staff: Clinical care is mixed. The therapy department and certain nurses, nurse managers and advanced-practice clinicians are frequently described positively, and several accounts cite strong recovery support following stroke or short-term rehab stays. At the same time, reviewers consistently point to variable quality among direct-care staff (both positive and problematic examples), delays in responding to resident requests, and gaps in shift-to-shift coordination. Staffing levels appear uneven, with particular strain noted on weekends; as a result, families reported needing to advocate actively to secure timely attention or continuity of care.

    Dining and activities: Dining receives largely favorable comments for variety and general acceptability, though there are occasional meal-preparation and food-safety inconsistencies noted. Some reviewers felt dietary needs (for example diabetes or potassium management) were not consistently individualized. Activity programming is regarded as a strength for many residents, with organized events, visits from animals, and access to outdoor areas cited as meaningful enhancements to daily life. However, a few residents reported limited engagement with activities depending on unit placement or cognitive status.

    Facilities and operations: Physical plant feedback is mixed. Several reviewers praised clean common areas, patios, and recent facility improvements under new ownership, while others cited sanitation and odor concerns in specific areas, maintenance needs, and an overall need for cosmetic updating. Rooming arrangements are often shared; cramped or dark rooms and noisy roommates (loud television) were recurrent complaints. Laundry and personal-property management emerged as a repeat problem—items delayed, lost, or not returned—indicating weaknesses in property controls.

    Safety, transfers, and communication: A pattern of operational concerns centers on transportation, transfers, and incident response. Reviews raise issues about transportation and equipment-security processes, gaps in transfer protocols, and family communication following clinical incidents or transfers. Medication-management and symptom-control practices were questioned in a subset of accounts, and reviewers also described delays or inconsistencies in therapy scheduling and premature discharge from therapy in some cases. Administrative communication (including billing coordination and post-discharge follow-up) is described as uneven.

    Notable patterns and guidance for families: The facility demonstrates clear strengths in rehabilitation, social work, and certain clinical leaders, along with valued amenities and programming. However, persistent operational issues—staffing variability, coordination gaps, property-management problems, sanitation concerns in some areas, and inconsistent individualized dietary or medication management—suggest families should ask targeted questions at intake. Useful areas to review in advance include staffing levels on the unit and weekends, therapy scheduling and expected discharge criteria, medication and symptom-control policies, transportation and transfer protocols, laundry/property procedures, and how the facility communicates about incidents and billing. Careful observation and proactive family advocacy were common themes in the reviews as mechanisms families used to secure more consistent care.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Cortland Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is located at 193 Clinton Ave, Cortland, NY, 13045.

    About Cortland Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

    Cortland Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center sits right on Clinton Avenue in Cortland, New York, over in the Finger Lakes district, and it's a skilled nursing facility that has 120 certified beds, hosting an average of 107 residents each day, and they run as a for-profit partnership connected to the Upstate Services Group with Efraim Steif managing since August 2017. The place is set up with three main care units, each having 40 beds: there's a Short-Term Rehabilitation unit, a Long-Term Care unit, and a Memory Care unit, so you get folks staying for rehab after surgery or illness, others needing long-term help, and some living with memory problems like dementia. The center offers a range of rehab and nursing services, including physical therapy with licensed therapists such as Ridham Patel, and they also cover occupational and speech therapy, IV therapy, and activities meant to keep people engaged. They've got board-certified specialists like Kristina Clark, DPT, GCS, and employ certified nursing assistants and aides like Rachel Brown and Justice Mainville, all working under Director Jeffrey D Amidon, M.D. and with daily clinical testing services including COVID-19 antigen and glucose checks.

    The staffing levels show about 3.45 nurse hours per resident each day, but they do have a high nurse turnover rate of 62.6%, pointing to staff changes happening often, which is something to keep in mind when considering continuity of care. Inspections report that they've had 19 total deficiencies, with two tied to infection issues and others including a resident rights citation about keeping the place safe, clean, and homelike (F0584), and a deficiency related to pressure ulcer care (F0686). There have been both regular inspections and extra checks for complaints and infection control, so you know the place does get monitored. They say they aim for a home-like atmosphere and good satisfaction, but the inspection records do show some room for improvement particularly around cleanliness and medical care. As a privately held company, they've chosen a WAIVER-type certification and the facility has unique identifiers such as CLIA number 33D0712609, UID M858-0000, and Site ID 0000, with primary contact named Rebekah Bray. The facility does offer basic amenities and clinical services intended to support rehabilitation and overall daily care.

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