roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale) is a large nursing home located in Reading, Pennsylvania. This facility received an uninspiring overall grade of D in our grading scheme. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 10 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale)
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Please note our records indicate that roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale) has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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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
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second best area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of C. Our long-term care grade is often used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.52174 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. The nursing rating includes several factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is considered to be a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. With a grade in this range in this category, we were not shocked to find this nursing home was well below average in several staffing metrics we looked at. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale) Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 6.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 3.83% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents which experienced falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 4.55% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 16.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 16.92% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 8.19% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 92.5% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 22.41% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 26.74% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 26.74% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 0.88% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In roMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Laureldale), 68.54% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Scores for Reading, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Reading, Pennsylvania has 9 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4 miles away2500 Bernville Road Reading Pennsylvania 19605Voluntary non-profit - Church(610) 378-2000
- Reading HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.89 miles away420 S 5th Avenue Reading Pennsylvania 19611Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 988-8000
- Pottstown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.22 miles away1600 East High Street Pottstown Pennsylvania 19464Voluntary non-profit - Private(610) 327-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care Reading, LLC2.54 miles away1001 Reed Avenue Building E, Suite 410 Reading Pennsylvania 19610Dialysis Stations: 11 (610) 378-7963
- Pennsylvania Dialysis Clinic of Reading4.43 miles away625 Spring Street Reading Pennsylvania 19610CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (610) 375-1215
- Reading Dialysis Center4.7 miles away965 Berkshire Boulevard Reading Pennsylvania 19610CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (610) 370-5323
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Kutztown11.16 miles away45 Constitution Boulevard Kutztown Pennsylvania 19530Dialysis Stations: 11 (610) 683-9766
- u.s. Renal Care - Pottstown16.56 miles away5 South Sunnybrook Road, Suite 500 Pottstown Pennsylvania 19464CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (610) 718-1127
- Davita - Ephrata17.36 miles away67 West Church Street Stevens Pennsylvania 17578CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 335-7399
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Pottstown18.77 miles away2223 East High St. Pottstown Pennsylvania 19464CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (610) 705-1895
- Etowah Dialysis LLC18.88 miles away2550 Route 100, Suite 2 Macungie Pennsylvania 18062Dialysis Stations: 12 (610) 336-8350