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Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center's website

185 South Mountain Boulevard,
Mountain Top PA 18707

(570) 474-6377

81.6% estimated occupancy 1

Please note our records indicate that Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.

Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, a city with 15,557 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a good grade. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this facility's inspections.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an B- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

This facility received its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. In our short-term care score, we attempt to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Moving on to the next category, this nursing home received a decent long-term care grade of C. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.55663 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 7.51% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.56% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 1% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 8.58% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 10.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term care patients which are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 12.97% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 17.68% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 17.68% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 9.16% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 66.89% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Wilkes-Barre General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.59 miles away575 North River Street Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania 18764Voluntary non-profit - Private(570) 829-8111
  • Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.57 miles away1000 East Mountain Boulevard Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania 18711Voluntary non-profit - Private(570) 826-7300
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonAcute Care Hospitals 14.52 miles away700 East Broad Street Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Government - Local(570) 501-4000
  • Berwick Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.33 miles away701 East 16th Street Berwick Pennsylvania 18603Proprietary(570) 759-5020

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Nanticoke6.81 miles away450 West Main Street Nanticoke Pennsylvania 18634Dialysis Stations: 13 (570) 740-4820
  • Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc.8.13 miles away309 Laird Street Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania 18702Dialysis Stations: 4 (570) 822-1280
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Wilkes Barre8.13 miles away307 Laird Street, Suite 1 Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania 18702CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (570) 825-9531
  • The Kidney Center of Greater Hazleton12.46 miles away426 Airport Road 2 Beltway Commons Hazleton Pennsylvania 18202Dialysis Stations: 21 (570) 450-0870
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Pittston14.06 miles away455 North Main Street Pittston Pennsylvania 18640Dialysis Stations: 13 (570) 655-4115
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Hazleton15.73 miles away110 Butler Drive Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Dialysis Stations: 12 (570) 454-3558
  • Old Forge Dialysis17.34 miles away325 South Main Street Old Forge Pennsylvania 18518Dialysis Stations: 12 (570) 457-3174
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Berwick18.89 miles away301 Market Street Berwick Pennsylvania 18603Dialysis Stations: 13 (570) 752-9180

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395542