Philadelphia Protestant Home

Philadelphia Protestant Home is a large non-profit facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This facility was given an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive ratings we offer. A score of this caliber requires first-rate marks across the board. Even in a city with 49 nursing homes, this facility stood out. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To pair with a strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its fine resume, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is a great sign. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Pennsylvania in this area with 63.3 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. This facility's vaccination data lagged a bit behind a few of the other statistics in this category, such as its number of nursing hours per resident. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.68019 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Fortunately, this facility excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

The last area we scored was nursing. This facility was awarded an above average nursing grade this year, with a B-. While this was not quite as strong as some of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade for that area. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This place boasts a really impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly skilled levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility in the Philadelphia area. Finally, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.