Murrysville Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
3300 Logan Ferry Road, Murrysville PA 15668 · (724) 325-1500 · 84.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Murrysville Rehabilitation and Wellness Center is a nursing home located in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. This city has a population of 13,139 people. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is a decent facility. This facility has some things working in its favor. We were also pleased to discover that this nursing home was consistent in all four of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This score is far better than its overall rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second best area ended up being short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. Short-term care scores are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average in terms of its volume of both physical therapy and registered nurse staffing provided to its patients. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 37.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. There are many criteria included in this grade. Many of the factors relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is a relatively low figure. Nevertheless, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care, which we weight more heavily in our nursing grades. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in some quality-focused statistics. We like to look at the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these issues.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next area, this facility was given an acceptable long-term care grade of C. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 97.22991 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Murrysville Rehabilitation and Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better