Delaware Valley Veteran's Home
2701 Southampton Rd, Philadelphia PA 19154 · (215) 965-0301 · 91.61% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Delaware Valley Veteran's Home is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 1,526,206 people. We awarded this facility an overall rating of A+, which is a phenomenal grade. Indeed, this is actually one of the top three nursing homes in Philadelphia. Philadelphia features a slew of other nursing homes, but it is doubtful you will need to look at too many others. This one looks like a high quality option. Scroll down to find this facility's category ratings, which are equally impressive. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the impressive nursing care provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.3 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than nearly any other facility provides. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Continuing with its first-class performance, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
In our final category, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. This finished off a first-rate profile. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Delaware Valley Veteran's Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percentage of long-term residents who have pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents which have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better