Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
700 Leonard Street, Clearfield PA 16830 · (814) 765-7545 · 64.79% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a very-large non-profit nursing home located in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. This nursing home was given an F, which is definitely concerning in our grading scheme. Based on our assessment, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 240 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this nursing home a poor overall grade, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This is due to the facility receiving a decent inspection report this year. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. 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.
Short-term Care Quality
Sadly, this facility's second most respectable score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. Our short-term care ratings are likely more critical for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 38.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. The nursing score consists of a handful of subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we scored is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is an abysmal grade. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.79725 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.9 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better