Saint Joseph Villa is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Flourtown, Pennsylvania. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a high quality nursing home. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the country. This nursing home also received consistently good scores in all four of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
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Saint Joseph Villa
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Audiology
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a first rate facility overall, this place also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 94.28571 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. In calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher grades in that category, with a B. Although this is not as dominant as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still a positive grade. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Saint Joseph Villa Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Saint Joseph Villa, 9.95% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Saint Joseph Villa, 2.54% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Saint Joseph Villa, 1.07% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Saint Joseph Villa, 8.57% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Saint Joseph Villa, 16.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Saint Joseph Villa, 1.35% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. High rates of depression could be an indicator a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Saint Joseph Villa, 95.35% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Saint Joseph Villa, 10.89% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Saint Joseph Villa, 13.75% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Saint Joseph Villa, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Saint Joseph Villa, 13.75% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Saint Joseph Villa, 13.48% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Saint Joseph Villa, 92.23% of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Roxborough Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.82 miles away5800 Ridge Ave Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19128Proprietary(215) 483-9900
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- Albert Einstein Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.69 miles away5501 Old York Road Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19141Voluntary non-profit - Other(215) 456-6090
- Suburban Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.77 miles away2701 Dekalb Pike Norristown Pennsylvania 19401Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 278-2000
- Horsham ClinicPsychiatric 6.36 miles away722 East Butler Pike Ambler Pennsylvania 19002Proprietary(215) 643-7800
- Jeanes HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.17 miles away7600 Central Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19111Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 728-2000
- Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.28 miles away1648 Huntingdon Pike Jenkintown Pennsylvania 19046Voluntary non-profit - Church(215) 947-3000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Harston Hall0.97 miles away350 Haws Lane Flourtown Pennsylvania 19031Dialysis Stations: 9 (215) 233-0181
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- Fresenius Kidney Care - Olney4.36 miles away2154-58 Stenton Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19138CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (215) 548-3704
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- Total Renal Care, Inc.5.02 miles away235 W. Chelten Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19144Dialysis Stations: 26 (215) 844-5915
- Davita - Northern Philadelphia5.38 miles away5933 North Broad Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19141CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (215) 549-5000