With an address in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is one of a mere two facilities there. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires respectable scores in most areas. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient more frequently.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was given an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in this category. With our short-term care score, we seek to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Our final area is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a grade of C in that area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.72% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.42% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that have experienced falls which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 1.92% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 15.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents which are administered antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 19.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents which were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.23% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 88.5% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 15.28% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 23.65% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 23.65 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Guardian Healthcare and 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 Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 72.22% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Berwick Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.99 miles away701 East 16th Street Berwick Pennsylvania 18603Proprietary(570) 759-5020
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonAcute Care Hospitals 17.04 miles away700 East Broad Street Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Government - Local(570) 501-4000
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