Cliveden Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Cliveden Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This facility was given a rock bottom overall grade based on the data we looked at. Philadelphia received a city grade of B-, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

This facility also didn't perform poorly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C for that category, which is another one of its better scores. Short-term care ratings are vital for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The important question is whether this also affected quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation with 54.8 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is far below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 24.863886 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points lower than average. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also alarming.