Pine Run Health Center is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. This facility was given an overall rating of A. Indeed, this proved to be ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in Doylestown. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this nursing home. As you will see below, this nursing home performed just as well in our category ratings. We give this place two thumbs up!
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Pine Run Health Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Aquatic Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its strong profile, this facility also was given a superb long-term care score, with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.5 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a dominant score of A in our short-term care area. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the last category, this nursing home also excelled in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area. This completed truly elite profile. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pine Run Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Pine Run Health Center, 5.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term patients that suffer from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Pine Run Health Center, 11% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who had falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Pine Run Health Center, 3.13% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Pine Run Health Center, 14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Pine Run Health Center, 21.57% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Pine Run Health Center, 0.52% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Pine Run Health Center, 97.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Pine Run Health Center, 17.65% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Pine Run Health Center, 15.55% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Pine Run Health Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Pine Run Health Center, 15.55% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Pine Run Health Center, 15.24% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Pine Run Health Center, 77.03% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Doylestown, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Abington Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.15 miles away1200 Old York Road Abington Pennsylvania 19001Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 481-2000
- Suburban Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.62 miles away2701 Dekalb Pike Norristown Pennsylvania 19401Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 278-2000
- Einstein Medical Center MontgomeryAcute Care Hospitals 14.76 miles away559 West Germantown Pike Norristown Pennsylvania 19403Voluntary non-profit - Private(484) 662-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Belmont Court Dialysis - Doylestown Campus2.63 miles away252 Belmont Avenue Doylestown Pennsylvania 18901Dialysis Stations: 22 (215) 348-7333
- Liberty Dialysis - Doylestown4.14 miles away2800 Kelly Road, Suite 110 Warrington Pennsylvania 18976CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (215) 488-7226
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Lansdale6.91 miles away120 Medical Campus Drive Lansdale Pennsylvania 19446CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (215) 853-8300
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Sellersville Dialysis8.13 miles away1105 Bethlehem Pike Sellersville Pennsylvania 18960CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (215) 257-0950
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Abramson8.16 miles away1425 Horsham Rd North Wales Pennsylvania 19454Dialysis Stations: 9 (215) 646-3525
- Davita North Wales Dialysis9.52 miles away1551 S. Valley Forge Road Lansdale Pennsylvania 19446Dialysis Stations: 13 (215) 361-6192
- Davita Franklin Commons Dialysis9.84 miles away720 Johnsville Boulevard, Suite 800 Warminster Pennsylvania 18974CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (215) 682-7691
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Abington11.66 miles away1036 Easton Road Willow Grove Pennsylvania 19090Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 657-5595