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Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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1 Heidelberg Drive,
Wernersville PA 19565

(610) 927-8200

77.64% estimated occupancy 1

Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente is located in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. The city has a population of 8,531 people. Featuring an overall score of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Aquatic Therapy

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility received a favorable short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that area with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 82.14286 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility received a strong nursing rating. This facility did not prove to have any weaknesses. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 3.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 2.92% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who experienced a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 4.38% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents that suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 32.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 26.15% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 1.38% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some experts believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 90.17% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 17.28% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 16.48% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 16.48% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 7.38% of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Phoebe Berks Health Care Cente, 65.56% of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.33 miles away2500 Bernville Road Reading Pennsylvania 19605Voluntary non-profit - Church(610) 378-2000
  • Reading HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.62 miles away420 S 5th Avenue Reading Pennsylvania 19611Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 988-8000
  • Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.2 miles away169 Martin Avenue Ephrata Pennsylvania 17522Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 733-0311
  • Upmc LititzAcute Care Hospitals 18.18 miles away1500 Highlands Drive Lititz Pennsylvania 17543Proprietary(717) 625-5670

Nearby Dialysis

  • Reading Dialysis Center5.64 miles away965 Berkshire Boulevard Reading Pennsylvania 19610CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (610) 370-5323
  • Pennsylvania Dialysis Clinic of Reading6.05 miles away625 Spring Street Reading Pennsylvania 19610CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (610) 375-1215
  • Fresenius Kidney Care Reading, LLC8.44 miles away1001 Reed Avenue Building E, Suite 410 Reading Pennsylvania 19610Dialysis Stations: 11 (610) 378-7963
  • Davita - Ephrata8.75 miles away67 West Church Street Stevens Pennsylvania 17578CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 335-7399
  • Lebanon County Dialysis17.95 miles away440 Oak Street Lebanon Pennsylvania 17042CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (717) 272-3050
  • Davita - Quentin Circle Dialysis18.12 miles away966 Isabel Drive Lebanon Pennsylvania 17042Dialysis Stations: 8 (717) 273-1026
  • Physicians Dialysis of Lancaster, LLC18.26 miles away345 W. Main St., Suite 202 Leola Pennsylvania 17540Dialysis Stations: 13 (717) 556-0080

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395880