Edgehill Nursing and Rehab Center

Edgehill Nursing and Rehab Center is one of four available nursing homes in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Sporting an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is one of the highest-graded nursing homes we assessed. We can't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its ratings are as good as they get. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this very important category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our nursing grade assesses a handful of subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was given a first-rate long-term care score. This actually ended up being this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.565216 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In our final area, this facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score, with an A-. This finished off a very strong profile. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.