Fox Subacute at Clara Burke
251 Stenton Avenue, Plymouth Meeting PA 19462 · (610) 828-2272 · 87.5% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Fox Subacute at Clara Burke is one of just a couple facilities located in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a lower end nursing home. This wasn't the worse nursing home we found, but we'd still be very reluctant to recommend it. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 60 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid places that had a long list of severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facilities second most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This place is above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.
Nurse Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. In computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. The problem with this nursing home was apparently more based on quality of care than quantity of care. Based on the staffing data, it looks like this nursing home provides an above average 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, nearly one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. Despite being above average in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a very poor nursing grade.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as favorable some of its other statistics in this area, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.86275 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 2.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't as bad since it had some more complex patients. This was its best score in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fox Subacute at Clara Burke Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Hospitalizations
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: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better