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Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center's website

2630 Woodland Road,
Abington PA 19001

(215) 884-6776

77% estimated occupancy 1

Note: Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Abington, Pennsylvania. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade in this range generally indicates some red flags. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Abington. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Lymphedema Care

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

Although this facility's overall grade is not a highlight, it actually received a slightly more favorable score in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is a decent score. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

One of this facility's more respectable category scores was in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our long-term care scores are based on a nursing home's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility provided the vaccine to only 82.638885 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This nursing home's third best category is its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. In determining these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

The final category we assessed was nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. The nursing grade includes a handful of components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This place offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents that had falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 3.12% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents showing depressive symptoms. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 88.22% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 14.84% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 21.64% Percentage of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 8.92 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. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In Brookside Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 72.59% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Abington Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.3 miles away1200 Old York Road Abington Pennsylvania 19001Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 481-2000
  • Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.34 miles away1648 Huntingdon Pike Jenkintown Pennsylvania 19046Voluntary non-profit - Church(215) 947-3000
  • Horsham ClinicPsychiatric 4.47 miles away722 East Butler Pike Ambler Pennsylvania 19002Proprietary(215) 643-7800
  • Jeanes HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.09 miles away7600 Central Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 728-2000
  • Chestnut Hill HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.46 miles away8835 Germantown Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19118Proprietary(215) 248-8200
  • Albert Einstein Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.65 miles away5501 Old York Road Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19141Voluntary non-profit - Other(215) 456-6090
  • Nazareth HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.04 miles away2601 Holme Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19152Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 335-6000
  • Roxborough Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.23 miles away5800 Ridge Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19128Proprietary(215) 483-9900

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Abington Dialysis1.43 miles away3940-a Commerce Avenue Willow Grove Pennsylvania 19090CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (215) 830-1115
  • Davita Willow Grove Dialysis1.75 miles away1849 Davisville Road Willow Grove Pennsylvania 19090Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 659-3426
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Abington1.81 miles away1036 Easton Road Willow Grove Pennsylvania 19090Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 657-5595
  • Davita - Wyncote Dialysis2.69 miles awayCedarbrook Plaza 1000 Easton Road, Suite 250 Wyncote Pennsylvania 19095CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 884-3398
  • Davita - Huntingdon Valley Dialysis3.79 miles away769 Huntingdon Pike Huntingdon Valley Pennsylvania 19006CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (215) 379-1788
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Harston Hall3.97 miles away350 Haws Lane Flourtown Pennsylvania 19031Dialysis Stations: 9 (215) 233-0181
  • Reliant Renal Care - Cheltenham, LLC4.95 miles away7107 Old York Road Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19126Dialysis Stations: 10 (267) 297-8069
  • Bio Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.5.41 miles away700 Cottman Avenue, Building A Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Dialysis Stations: 13 (215) 745-3183

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395227