Baptist Homes of Western Pennsylvania
489 Castle Shannon Blvd, Pittsburgh PA 15234 · (412) 563-6550 · 88.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Baptist Homes of Western Pennsylvania is a large non-profit facility located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We awarded this facility an overall score of A-, making it ranked among the top fifteen facilities in Pittsburgh. Even in a city offering 31 other nursing homes, this nursing home is appealing. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 126 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a high-end short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A. In crafting our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One reason for this place's strong score in this area is it provides more care from registered nurses to its patients than a typical nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. This place fared better than most nursing homes in the country in this area with 51.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Although this was not quite as impressive as some of its other scores, this is nevertheless a decent rating for that area. In determining our long-term care scores, we size up the assistance with daily living offered to the nursing home's patients. In addition to considering the very solid volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the nursing home's vaccination record. By way of example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive total. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Baptist Homes of Western Pennsylvania Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you 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 metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better