Homewood at Martinsburg Pa

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Short-term care grades are vital for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We gave it an A- for that category. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also was awarded an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.56734 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we graded is this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- in nursing. Our nursing rating is largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also factored in some quality-based metrics in this category. While this facility did not rank highly in terms of nursing hours per resident, it performed better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.