Haven Convalescent Home is a nursing home in New Castle, Pennsylvania, which has a population of 55,245 people. Featuring an overall score of B, this looks like a very respectable facility. This grade was right in line with the city grade in New Castle. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Haven Convalescent Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this ended up being a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category. In this category, we awarded it an A+. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.41003 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of C. In calculating these short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the final area we scored. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Haven Convalescent Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Haven Convalescent Home, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients that are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Haven Convalescent Home, 3.38% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Haven Convalescent Home, 1.85% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Haven Convalescent Home, 15.28% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents that are given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Haven Convalescent Home, 18.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Haven Convalescent Home, 3.3% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Haven Convalescent Home, 86.27% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Haven Convalescent Home, 15.17% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Haven Convalescent Home, 17.92% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Haven Convalescent Home, 1.44 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Haven Convalescent Home, 17.92 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Haven Convalescent Home, 73.03% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for New Castle, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Boardman Dialysis Center, LLC15.78 miles away7153 Tiffany Blvd. Youngstown Ohio 44514CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (330) 729-1355
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