Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center - Lee Campus

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive several A+ category scores. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric 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 7.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its strong resume, this nursing home also performed well in this area. In fact, we gave it a of A in that area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility received a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. The nursing score weighs many subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.