Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center
1404 Golf Park Drive, Lake Ariel PA 18436 · (570) 698-5647 · 67.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. This nursing home received an overall grade of D in our grading scheme. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Lake Ariel. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this facility a grade of C for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place averages just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Lastly, while this place got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this category. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 37.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was given a poor score here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is definitely a major disappointment. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated just 90.47619 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized 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 emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better