Hearthside Rehab Center is a senior living facility in State College, Pennsylvania. This city has a population of 66,497 people. With an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. This nursing home is about as bad as it gets. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was nursing, which is discussed in the next section.
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Hearthside Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Dialysis Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we did not have many favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall grade or its category grades. Its best category is nursing. Nevertheless, with just a D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Sadly, this facility's second best category was inspections, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Inspection ratings weigh many items on the facility's recent inspection reports. If you see severe deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, we also need to point out that this place received large government fines of more than $50,000. This usually means that CMS inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad government inspections.
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Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. As you might expect, we learned that this facility provides significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was given an abysmal grade of F in this category. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.107254 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hearthside Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 3.79% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 4.55% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 40.39% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 23.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 2.95% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients showing symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 97.16% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 15.44% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 22.84% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 22.84% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 11.21% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hearthside Rehab Center, 65.09% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Scores for State College, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- 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-minus
Looking for more options? State College, Pennsylvania has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mount Nittany Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.02 miles away1800 East Park Ave State College Pennsylvania 16803Voluntary non-profit - Private(814) 231-7000
- Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.48 miles away400 Highland Avenue Lewistown Pennsylvania 17044Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 248-5411
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - State College Dialysis2.1 miles away500 Science Park Road, Suite 2 State College Pennsylvania 16803Dialysis Stations: 12 (814) 237-3082
- Fresenius Kidney Care - State College2.79 miles away3901 South Atherton Street, Suite 7 State College Pennsylvania 16801CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (814) 466-7029
- Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.17.69 miles away325 W. Freedom Avenue, Suite 110 Burnham Pennsylvania 17009Dialysis Stations: 13 (717) 248-4513
- Davita - Lewistown Dialysis18.59 miles away611 Electric Avenue Lewistown Pennsylvania 17044CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (717) 248-2344