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Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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120 Lakeside Drive,
Worthington PA 16262

(724) 445-3000

92.54% estimated occupancy 1

Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek is an average-sized nursing home located in Worthington, Pennsylvania. With an overall rating of C, this is a decent facility. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Bariatric Care

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home's best category grade came in long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.72449 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. Our nursing score includes quite a few subcategories, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is far below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a D in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 10.07% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 3.83% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents which have experienced falls which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 0.51% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 17.35% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 22.96% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 13.53% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 97.91% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 12.53% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 9.89% of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 9.89% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 13.58% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient care during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Quality Life Services - Sugar Creek, 92.77% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Allegheny Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.76 miles away1301 Carlisle St Natrona Heights Pennsylvania 15065Voluntary non-profit - Other(412) 224-5100

Nearby Dialysis

  • Ara - Central Kittanning Dialysis Center, LLC8.27 miles awayOne Nolte Drive 700 Medical Arts, Suite 720 Kittanning Pennsylvania 16201CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (724) 543-3151
  • Butler County Dialysis Center12.59 miles away111 Woody Drive Butler Pennsylvania 16001CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (724) 431-2241
  • Dci of Parks Bend19.1 miles away1143 Industrial Park Road Vandergrift Pennsylvania 15690Dialysis Stations: 19 (724) 845-3313
  • Davita Allegheny Valley Dialysis19.43 miles away1620 Pacific Avenue Heights Plaza Shopping Center Natrona Heights Pennsylvania 15065Dialysis Stations: 11 (724) 224-4382

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395410