Allied Services Transitional Rehab Unit

On top of receiving a great overall score, this facility also received an A+ in short-term care. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing score considers several datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Pennsylvania in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

The third category we analyzed was long-term care. Contributing to its superb resume, this facility also performed well in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for that area. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This facility has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. This is one of the few facilities in the state to receive an A- or better in all four categories. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.