ProMedica Total Rehab+ - Willow Grove

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. In forming our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 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 well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of C for long-term care. With our long-term care assessment, we focus on the amount of services provided by a facility, along with some qualitative statistics. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 94.545456 percent of its patients, which is a very solid percentage. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.