Broomall Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

This nursing home earned an inspection grade which is better than its overall rating. Inspection ratings are tied to a nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded this facility a very solid grade of B+ in this area. Inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing score is largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility's third best category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is generally a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we rated was long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility a C. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated a relatively low 38.398693 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.