Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. Sporting an overall rating of D, this is a subpar nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Meyersdale. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This score is much more impressive than the place's overall score. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest area was its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a place has quality controls in place.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, this facility did not perform well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.73418 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing care can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents that were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care residents that are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.12% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Higher levels of depression may indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 88.22% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 14.84% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 21.64% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 8.92 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Meyersdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 72.59% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 0.06 miles away200 Hospital Drive Meyersdale Pennsylvania 15552Proprietary(814) 634-5911
- Upmc SomersetAcute Care Hospitals 14.04 miles away225 South Center Avenue Somerset Pennsylvania 15501Voluntary non-profit - Private(814) 443-5000
- Western Maryland Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.85 miles away12500 Willowbrook Road Cumberland Maryland 21502Voluntary non-profit - Private(240) 964-8001
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Somerset County Dialysis14.01 miles away229 S. Kimberly Avenue, Suite 100 Somerset Pennsylvania 15501Dialysis Stations: 10 (814) 445-6127
- Western Maryland Regional Dialysis Center19.02 miles away12502 Willowbrook Rd Ste 250 Cumberland Maryland 21502Dialysis Stations: 35 (240) 964-8600