ProMedica Total Rehab+ (Exton)

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home performed well in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Very few facilities performed as well in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this nursing home was given a top-shelf grade of A- in our short-term care area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing rating features a number of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a very strong long-term care grade. Although this wasn't quite as dominant as many of its other grades, this is still one of our more impressive grades we offer. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were not able to locate information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.