Harborview Rehab & Care at Lansdale

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's next best category was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. Our long-term care grade is generally used to measure a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 74.20091 percent of its residents. This is many points below the national average. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, which is this nursing home's weakest category. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. With a score this poor in this area, we weren't surprised to find this nursing home was below average in many staffing figures we focus on. The facility offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.