Mt Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center

Mt Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sporting an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. We ranked this as one of the bottom 10 rated facilities in Pittsburgh. In a city with more than 20 other nursing homes, you should be able to find a better option. The only positive thing we can really say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

While we were not high on this facility's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A-. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. The nursing rating features a number of factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This place averages just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is a very low figure. Finally, we also baked some quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This facility was subpar in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are usually decent indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Unfortunately, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not a very good score. In computing these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 24.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Moving on to the last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category score. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the data points we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 33.95722 percent of its patients. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also disappointing. We found that this place had 2.34 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.