The Watermark at Bellingham

Nursing Home
Independent Living
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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The Watermark at Bellingham's website

1615 East Boot Road East Goshen,
West Chester PA 19380

(610) 436-6663

52.5% estimated occupancy ¹

The Watermark at Bellingham is a small nursing home in West Chester, Pennsylvania. This turns out to be an A rated facility, which is one of the most impressive ratings that we offer. We rated this facility as one of the top 100 facilities in Pennsylvania, which is a distinguished list. This nursing home also received strong grades in all four of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
No Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Catheter Care

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Facility Inspections

To go along with a favorable overall grade, we gave this place a grade of A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded several A+ category grades. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

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Nurse Quality

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Long-term Care Quality

The last category we rated is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a favorable grade of B. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 78.82353 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

The Watermark at Bellingham Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of long-term patients who sustained falls leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 3.12% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could indicate a less hospitable environment.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 88.22% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 14.84% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 21.64% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 8.92 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In The Watermark at Bellingham, 72.59% Percentage of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.

Scores for West Chester, PA

Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
Inspection Rating has a grade of A

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Nearby Dialysis

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