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Brookmont Healthcare Center

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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510 Brookmont Drive,
Effort PA 18330

(610) 681-4070

74.78% estimated occupancy 1

Brookmont Healthcare Center is located in Effort, Pennsylvania. This proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this facility's report card was is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. The nursing score includes a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This facility's least impressive area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. We gave it an F for this area. In spite of a few solid scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we wanted to make sure you are aware. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to just 85.48896 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Brookmont Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 3.38% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 1.85% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients who experienced a UTI. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 15.28% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 18.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure indicates the percent of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 3.3% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 86.27% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 15.17% Percentage of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 17.92% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 1.44 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 17.92 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 9.68 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Brookmont Healthcare Center, 73.03% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusAcute Care Hospitals 10.09 miles away100 St Luke's Lane Stroudsburg Pennsylvania 18360Voluntary non-profit - Private(272) 212-1000
  • Palmerton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.98 miles away135 Lafayette Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 826-3141
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoAcute Care Hospitals 14.01 miles away206 East Brown Street East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania 18301Voluntary non-profit - Private(570) 421-4000
  • St Luke's Hospital-Gnaden Huetten CampusAcute Care Hospitals 16.85 miles away211 North 12th Street Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235Voluntary non-profit - Private(607) 377-1300
  • Easton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.95 miles away250 South 21st Street Easton Pennsylvania 18042Proprietary(610) 250-4076
  • St Luke's Warren HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.93 miles away185 Roseberry St Phillipsburg New Jersey 08865Voluntary non-profit - Other(908) 847-6700

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Slatebelt9.01 miles away525 East West Street Wind Gap Pennsylvania 18091Dialysis Stations: 12 (610) 863-7852
  • Davita - Pocono Home Center9.73 miles away3361 Route 611, Suite 1 Bartonsville Pennsylvania 18321Dialysis Stations: 4 (570) 629-1292
  • Palmerton Dialysis Center13.01 miles away185-C Delaware Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Dialysis Stations: 10 (610) 826-5929
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - East Stroudsburg13.72 miles away125 South Courtland Street East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania 18301Dialysis Stations: 14 (570) 476-1606
  • Davita - Eagle Valley13.86 miles away166 Eagles Glen Plaza East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania 18301Dialysis Stations: 13 (570) 424-5307
  • Davita - Pocono Dialysis Center16.03 miles away447 Office Plaza, Building 100, Suite B East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania 18301Dialysis Stations: 16 (570) 476-5630
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Carbon County16.19 miles away168 S. Sargent Stanley Hoffman Boulevard Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 379-0330
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Easton16.71 miles away3501 Northwood Avenue Easton Pennsylvania 18045Dialysis Stations: 30 (610) 253-4278

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395462