Clarion Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Clarion Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Clarion, Pennsylvania. With an overall score of B, this facility is a quality option. Based on our analysis, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. We were also pleased to find that this facility did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given a favorable short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This place provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 46.8 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing score weighs several datapoints. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Our final area is long-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a C in this area. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was less favorable. We found that this place had 2.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.