Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a very-large facility in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel facility. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next section.
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Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Contracted Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home received 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an D. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the area of long-term care. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 93.34601 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the next category, this facility really did not perform very well in this category either. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Given its poor score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 4.93% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term residents that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 4.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that sustained falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 2.17% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 16.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 19.73% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 96.12% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.62% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 6.38% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Many argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 6.38% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 10.82% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 88% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Penn Highlands ClearfieldAcute Care Hospitals 2.18 miles away809 Turnpike Ave Clearfield Pennsylvania 16830Voluntary non-profit - Other(814) 768-2497
- Meadows Psychiatric CenterPsychiatric 18.84 miles away132 Meadows Drive Centre Hall Pennsylvania 16828Proprietary(814) 364-2161
- Penn Highlands DuboisAcute Care Hospitals 19.88 miles away100 Hospital Avenue Du Bois Pennsylvania 15801Voluntary non-profit - Other(814) 371-2200
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Clearfield Dialysis4.13 miles away8866 Clearfield Curwensville Highway Clearfield Pennsylvania 16830Dialysis Stations: 16 (814) 765-2543
- Fresenius Kidney Care - North Philipsburg12.38 miles away1031 North Front Street Philipsburg Pennsylvania 16866Dialysis Stations: 12 (814) 342-0280
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Dubois Jv18.6 miles away635 D Maple Avenue Du Bois Pennsylvania 15801Dialysis Stations: 21 (814) 371-5093