Harmon House Care Center
601 South Church Street, Mount Pleasant PA 15666 · (724) 547-1890 · 90.45% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Harmon House Care Center is the sole nursing home we identified in this city. We gave this nursing home an alarming overall rating based on the data we looked at. This nursing home does not seem to have much going for it. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 109 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable grades in that area with a B+. 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. It is typically in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had a long list of deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
We were also stunned to find that this nursing home received a solid short-term care rating this year. We awarded it a C in this area. With our short-term care category, we try to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this metric with 50.8 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 96.16519 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was not nearly as favorable. Here we found that this facility had 2.26 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a concerning rate.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing, in which this facility received a poor grade here also. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. With a meager 2.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic dragged down this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harmon House Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents which have experienced UTI's. UTI's could be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic could also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents which were given antianxiety medication. These medications are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents that maintained mobility. Many would argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates 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
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better