Dresher Hill Health & Rehabilitation Center
1390 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington PA 19034 · (215) 628-3800 · 83.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Dresher Hill Health & Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, a city with 5,999 people. Our scoring scheme was not very kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall grade of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Fort Washington. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second most favorable score is short-term care, but it nevertheless received a grade of just D in that category. This is still a well below average grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Given its poor grade, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 43.1 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really pulled down this nursing home's nursing score substantially.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was long-term care, where this facility received a very poor score in this category also. Sadly, it received an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 50.9589 percent of its patients. This is many points lower than average. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.11 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Dresher Hill Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes 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 measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better