Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The city has 19,067 people. This is a well below average facility, with an overall grade of D. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Elkins Park. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Adult Day Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have a long list of severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care rating and that actually wound up as its next highest score. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 76.158936 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
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Nurse Quality
Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. There are a host of criteria within this grade. Most of these datapoints reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was short-term care, which is a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 7.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.42% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffered a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 1.92% of Patients had UTIs
This measures the percent of long-term residents who had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 15.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 19.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.23% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher rates of depression could imply lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 88.5% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 15.28% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 23.65% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 23.65 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.84 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center, 72.22% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Jeanes HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.77 miles away7600 Central Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 728-2000
- Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.82 miles away1648 Huntingdon Pike Jenkintown Pennsylvania 19046Voluntary non-profit - Church(215) 947-3000
- Nazareth HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.13 miles away2601 Holme Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19152Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 335-6000
- Albert Einstein Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.37 miles away5501 Old York Road Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19141Voluntary non-profit - Other(215) 456-6090
- Abington Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.42 miles away1200 Old York Road Abington Pennsylvania 19001Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 481-2000
- St Christopher's Hospital for ChildrenChildrens 4.68 miles away160 East Erie Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19134Proprietary(215) 427-5000
- Temple University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.43 miles away3401 North Broad Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19140Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 707-2000
- Chestnut Hill HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.87 miles away8835 Germantown Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19118Proprietary(215) 248-8200
Nearby Dialysis
- Bio Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.0.91 miles away700 Cottman Avenue, Building A Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Dialysis Stations: 13 (215) 745-3183
- Davita - Huntingdon Valley Dialysis1.23 miles away769 Huntingdon Pike Huntingdon Valley Pennsylvania 19006CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (215) 379-1788
- Northeast Philadelphia Dialysis Center1.36 miles away518 Knorr Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Dialysis Stations: 16 (215) 745-4859
- Sahara Dialysis, LLC1.69 miles away133 Cheltenham Avenue Cheltenham Pennsylvania 19012CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (215) 635-1870
- Reliant Renal Care - Cheltenham, LLC2.03 miles away7107 Old York Road Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19126Dialysis Stations: 10 (267) 297-8069
- Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.2.17 miles away301 W. Chelten Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19144Dialysis Stations: 13 (215) 844-1976
- Davita Cottman Kidney Center2.29 miles away7198 Castor Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19149CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 745-4060
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Northeast Philadelphia2.44 miles away900 East Howell Street, Suite A Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19149Dialysis Stations: 20 (215) 831-6170