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The Lutheran Home at Topton

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  • Independent Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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The Lutheran Home at Topton's website

One South Home Avenue,
Topton PA 19562

(610) 682-1400

86.23% estimated occupancy 1

The Lutheran Home at Topton is a large non-profit nursing home located in Topton, Pennsylvania. It looks like this is a fine facility. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find 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 - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Dentistry
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Audiology
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Another one of this nursing home's quality category grades came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Nursing ratings are largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Our next category is long-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. In calculating our long-term care scores, we size up the personal care received by the nursing home's patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 72.45409 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

The Lutheran Home at Topton Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 5.89% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 4.84% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 3.41% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents which have had UTI's. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 16.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents that are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 20.94% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 0% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 77.48% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 18.55% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 27.3% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 27.3% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 6.55% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In The Lutheran Home at Topton, 65.48% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lehigh Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.64 miles away1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard Allentown Pennsylvania 18105Voluntary non-profit - Private(610) 402-2273
  • Sacred Heart HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.42 miles away421 Chew Street Allentown Pennsylvania 18102Voluntary non-profit - Private(610) 776-4900
  • St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.9 miles away2500 Bernville Road Reading Pennsylvania 19605Voluntary non-profit - Church(610) 378-2000
  • Reading HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.57 miles away420 S 5th Avenue Reading Pennsylvania 19611Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 988-8000
  • St Luke's Hospital BethlehemAcute Care Hospitals 17.86 miles away801 Ostrum Street Bethlehem Pennsylvania 18015Voluntary non-profit - Private(610) 954-4000
  • Pottstown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.99 miles away1600 East High Street Pottstown Pennsylvania 19464Voluntary non-profit - Private(610) 327-7000
  • St Luke's Quakertown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.52 miles away1021 Park Avenue Quakertown Pennsylvania 18951Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 538-4500

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Kutztown4.32 miles away45 Constitution Boulevard Kutztown Pennsylvania 19530Dialysis Stations: 11 (610) 683-9766
  • Etowah Dialysis LLC5.98 miles away2550 Route 100, Suite 2 Macungie Pennsylvania 18062Dialysis Stations: 12 (610) 336-8350
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Allentown11.03 miles away3136 Hamilton Boulevard Allentown Pennsylvania 18103CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (610) 435-6718
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - South Allentown12.27 miles away2820 Mitchell Avenue Allentown Pennsylvania 18103Dialysis Stations: 16 (610) 797-7655
  • Etowah Dialysis, LLC12.67 miles away1901 Hamilton St., Suite 200 Allentown Pennsylvania 18104Dialysis Stations: 4 (610) 776-1479
  • Davita - St. Luke's Allentown Dialysis12.67 miles away1901 Hamilton St., Suite 100 Allentown Pennsylvania 18104Dialysis Stations: 4 (610) 435-2590
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Schnecksville13.46 miles away4909 Route 873 Schnecksville Pennsylvania 18078Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 799-2011
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Fogelsville14.52 miles away7310 Tilghman Street, Suite 100 Allentown Pennsylvania 18106Dialysis Stations: 13 (610) 395-1980