Cambria Care Center

Cambria Care Center is a very-large nursing home located in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This nursing home is just about as bad as it gets. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although this place's overall score was terrible, it performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility excelled in nursing, where it earned an C. Few places performed better in this area. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored in some quality-based measures. This facility scored well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is typically an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade. This is well below average in this category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to only 34.143223 percent of its residents, which is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home did not fare very well here either. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Based on its poor score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 30.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.