ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Montgomeryville)

To go along with a strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem 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.

This facility also received a very impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this is this nursing home's second strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 58.021976 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident even once per day.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was awarded a very strong grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a very strong report card. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. 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, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.