Mifflin Center

Mifflin Center is a nursing home located in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city with a total of 213,013 people. We awarded this facility an impressive overall grade of B. As a matter of fact, this is ranked among the five highest rated nursing homes in the city. Even with Reading offering 10 other nursing homes to select from, this one looks like a perfectly acceptable option. Fortunately, this place didn't have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in that category. Inspection scores are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 64.7 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to the next area, this facility also received a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 94.36937 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.95 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final area we graded was nursing. We awarded this facility a C in that category. The nursing score is based on many factors, however, the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also weighed some quality-based measures. This place scored well in a few of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home beat the national average.