Powerback Rehabilitation 3485 Davisville Road

Powerback Rehabilitation 3485 Davisville Road is an average-sized facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. It looks like this nursing home is among the more impressive nursing homes we looked at. A grade in this range requires very strong marks across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the nation. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Pennsylvania in this area with 68.2 percent of its residents returning home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor dings aren't the end of the world.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are numerous subcategories within this area. Many of the criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these statistics. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility the state.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a C. While this ended up being its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.2406 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.