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The Lutheran Home at Johnstown

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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The Lutheran Home at Johnstown's website

807 Goucher Street,
Johnstown PA 15905

(814) 255-6844

49.04% estimated occupancy 1

The Lutheran Home at Johnstown is a small non-profit nursing home located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This facility is a subpar facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Johnstown, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Radiation Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B for our short-term care score. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This score is a more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We believe that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Nurse Quality

Grade: C

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing grade weighs several components, but the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good 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.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility was given a very poor score in this area as well. It received an F for this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 81 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

The Lutheran Home at Johnstown Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 11.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 3% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents that have sustained UTI's. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this statistic may be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 19.19% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for several conditions, such as dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 20.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 0% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 83.47% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 11.25% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 16.2% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who maintained mobility.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 16.2% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Johnstown, 70.65% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with better rehabilitation.

Scores for Johnstown, PA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

Looking for more options? Johnstown, Pennsylvania has 5 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.57 miles away1086 Franklin Street Johnstown Pennsylvania 15905Proprietary(814) 534-9000
  • Chan Soon- Shiong Medical Center at WindberAcute Care Hospitals 7.25 miles away600 Somerset Avenue Windber Pennsylvania 15963Voluntary non-profit - Private(814) 467-3000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Zz-Closed-Prodigy Dialysis, LLC - Osborne Street1.76 miles away88 Osborne Street Johnstown Pennsylvania 15905Dialysis Stations: 1 (814) 539-0798
  • Davita Napoleon Place Dialysis1.77 miles away420 Napoleon Place Johnstown Pennsylvania 15901Dialysis Stations: 12 (814) 535-8205
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Richland Square4.82 miles away105 Metzler Street Johnstown Pennsylvania 15904Dialysis Stations: 11 (814) 262-7560
  • Davita Budfield Street Home Dialysis5.84 miles away350 Budfield Street, Suite 1 Johnstown Pennsylvania 15904Dialysis Stations: 2 (814) 254-4262
  • Davita - Pdi Johnstown5.85 miles away344 Budfield Street Johnstown Pennsylvania 15904CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (814) 266-4949
  • Davita - Pdi Ebensburg18.13 miles away429 Manor Dr., Suite 650 Ebensburg Pennsylvania 15931Dialysis Stations: 9 (814) 472-2642
  • Dci at Chestnut Ridge18.41 miles away25 Colony Boulevard, Suite 112 Blairsville Pennsylvania 15717Dialysis Stations: 8 (724) 459-4980