Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home earned a decent overall rating, its inspections score is notably better than its overall score. Due to a strong health inspection report this year, it received a strong score in that category with a grade of B. Inspection grades are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive score in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing rating analyzes several components, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures. Although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

This nursing home's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. We gave it a lowly F in this area. In spite of a few acceptable scores in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.548386 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.