Kinkora Pythian Home

With an address in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, Kinkora Pythian Home is one of just a couple available nursing homes in the city. With an overall rating of B+, this nursing home should work for most people. Based on our assessment, this facility is a good fit for most people. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

One of the reasons this ended up being a strong facility is that it earned an impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In that category, we gave it a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One reason for this place's strong rating in short-term care is that it provides a significantly larger volume of hours of physical therapy to its patients than the average nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned to the community from this facility. We found that it performed decently , with 48.8 percent of its patients able to return home.

The next category we rated ended up being this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- for long-term care. In our long-term care grade, we focus more on the volume of services offered by a facility, along with a series of quality metrics. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.