Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re is a large nursing home located in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. This nursing home proved to be an A+ rated facility. Being awarded an A+ in our grading scheme takes excellent performance across the board. Based on our analysis, you can't go wrong here. This also wound up being a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong ratings in each of our categories. More information about these categories is available below.
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Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re
- Nursing Home
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
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility received an A+ inspection rating. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be given several A+ category scores. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.91697 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home 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
Turning the page to our next category, this nursing home was awarded an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area. With our short-term care category, we attempt to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
In the final area, we awarded this facility an A+ for its nursing grade. This completed a very favorable report card. The nursing rating is based on a number of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 0.84% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 1.44% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who have suffered a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 1.1% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic can be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 7.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 16.97% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 1.12% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 99.46% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 14.02% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 15.41% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 15.41% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 5.34% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mahoning Valley Nursing and Re, 81.28% of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- St Luke's Hospital-Gnaden Huetten CampusAcute Care Hospitals 2.06 miles away211 North 12th Street Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235Voluntary non-profit - Private(607) 377-1300
- St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.72 miles away360 W Ruddle Street Coaldale Pennsylvania 18218Voluntary non-profit - Private(570) 645-2131
- Palmerton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.93 miles away135 Lafayette Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 826-3141
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonAcute Care Hospitals 13.35 miles away700 East Broad Street Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Government - Local(570) 501-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Carbon County2.74 miles away168 S. Sargent Stanley Hoffman Boulevard Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 379-0330
- Palmerton Dialysis Center8.02 miles away185-C Delaware Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Dialysis Stations: 10 (610) 826-5929
- Etowah Dialysis LLC9.74 miles away1215 East Broad Street Tamaqua Pennsylvania 18252Dialysis Stations: 8 (570) 668-3480
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Schnecksville12.92 miles away4909 Route 873 Schnecksville Pennsylvania 18078Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 799-2011
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Hazleton13.23 miles away110 Butler Drive Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Dialysis Stations: 12 (570) 454-3558
- The Kidney Center of Greater Hazleton16.63 miles away426 Airport Road 2 Beltway Commons Hazleton Pennsylvania 18202Dialysis Stations: 21 (570) 450-0870
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- Etowah Dialysis, LLC19.68 miles away1220 3rd Street Whitehall Pennsylvania 18052Dialysis Stations: 13 (610) 266-1706