Quality Life Services - Westmont
787 Goucher Street, Johnstown PA 15905 · (814) 255-5539 · 76.34% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Quality Life Services - Westmont is a nursing home in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which has 71,292 people. Featuring an overall grade of B-, we deemed this nursing home as ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. Overall grades in this range are most likely a reliable indicator of a middle of the pack facility. This place seems to have some things going for it. One of the best aspects of this facility's profile is its stellar nursing score, which we will address in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 41 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing grade includes quite a few components, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Roughly a quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures easily beat out the national average. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home received a B- in this area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 40.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our last area, this facility did not fare very well. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's poorest grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Even though we determined this nursing home had an above average quantity of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be a bit lower than we expected. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 73.07692 percent of its residents. This is a statistic we would love to see this nursing home improve on. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Quality Life Services - Westmont Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better