Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center is a large nursing home in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. We gave this facility an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Chambersburg. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Long-term Care Quality
Even though we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it earned a more respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care scores are critical for prospective residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.631 percent of its patients, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it received a grade of just D for its inspection score, which was unfortunately its second best grade. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a bad performance spanned more than one year.
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Nurse Quality
We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an D for that category, which is one of our best scores. The nursing rating includes many components, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we analyzed was short-term care. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in that category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 8.4% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 2.77% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a fall leading to major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 1.39% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 21.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 27.94% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 2.68% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 99.48% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 15.59% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 19.77% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 19.77% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 4.59% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Laurel Lakes Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 75.9% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Chambersburg HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.01 miles away112 North Seventh Street Chambersburg Pennsylvania 17201Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 267-3000
- Waynesboro HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.67 miles away501 East Main St Waynesboro Pennsylvania 17268Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 765-4000
- Fulton County Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.94 miles away214 Peach Orchard Road Mc Connellsburg Pennsylvania 17233Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 485-3155
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Chambersburg0.94 miles away22 St. Paul Drive, Suite 104 Chambersburg Pennsylvania 17201CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (717) 263-8505
- Dialysis Care Center - Chambersburg LLC1.16 miles away20 Parkwood Drive, Suite 1 Chambersburg Pennsylvania 17201Dialysis Stations: 14 (717) 401-2060
- u.s. Renal Care - Chambersburg1.74 miles awayPark Fifth Avenue, Professional Center 765 Fifth Avenue, Suite A Chambersburg Pennsylvania 17201CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (717) 263-9300
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Waynesboro12.67 miles away27 Vista Avenue Waynesboro Pennsylvania 17268CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 765-8880
- Fmc - Hagerstown18.5 miles away12931 Oak Hill Ave Hagerstown Maryland 21742CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (301) 797-2311
- Dialysis Care Center Fulton County, LLC19.95 miles away214 Peach Orchard Road Mc Connellsburg Pennsylvania 17233Dialysis Stations: 8 (717) 325-3180