South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center is in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The city has a total of 36,535 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of D. A grade in this range generally suggests a few concerning datapoints. If you are not satisfied with this facility's mediocre overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are five other nursing homes in Canonsburg. The only positive thing we can really say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
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South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
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- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Facility Inspections
Although we were not high on this place overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This score is much more impressive than the place's overall score. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid places that had a long list of deficiencies. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those 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. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of C. Nursing grades are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a patient even once per day.
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Long-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care rating. This is well below average in this category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated only 26.35135 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the final area, we awarded this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. With our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 3.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 11.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This gauges the percent of long-term residents which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 1.35% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that had falls which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 13.37% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care patients that are prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 25.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 4.6% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 56.3% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 17.74% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 23.19% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Some experts argue that mobility is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 0.04 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 23.19% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 6.64% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, 64.97% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Canonsburg, PA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Canonsburg, Pennsylvania has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Canonsburg General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.11 miles away100 Medical Boulevard Canonsburg Pennsylvania 15317Voluntary non-profit - Private(724) 873-5892
- Washington Hospital, TheAcute Care Hospitals 7.26 miles away155 Wilson Avenue Washington Pennsylvania 15301Voluntary non-profit - Private(724) 225-7000
- St Clair HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.44 miles away1000 Bower Hill Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15243Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 942-4000
- Jefferson HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.31 miles away565 Coal Valley Road Clairton Pennsylvania 15025Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 469-5000
- Monongahela Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.42 miles away1163 Country Club Road Monongahela Pennsylvania 15063Voluntary non-profit - Private(724) 258-1000
- Ohio Valley General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.26 miles away25 Heckel Road Mc Kees Rocks Pennsylvania 15136Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 777-6161
- Upmc MercyAcute Care Hospitals 15.28 miles away1400 Locust Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15219Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 232-8111
- Allegheny General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.91 miles away320 East North Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 359-3131
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci of Hillpointe1.82 miles away131 Hillpointe Drive Canonsburg Pennsylvania 15317Dialysis Stations: 23 (724) 873-1242
- Liberty Dialysis - Southpointe1.85 miles away1200 Corporate Drive Canonsburg Pennsylvania 15317CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (724) 745-5565
- Davita - Oak Springs Dialysis6.44 miles away764 Locust Avenue Washington Pennsylvania 15301Dialysis Stations: 13 (724) 229-7377
- Dci of Washington7.11 miles away280 North Avenue Washington Pennsylvania 15301Dialysis Stations: 18 (724) 229-8834
- Liberty Dialysis - Washington7.86 miles away90 West Chestnut Street 100 East Wing Washington Pennsylvania 15301CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (724) 228-7398
- Davita - Bethel Park8.4 miles away6000 Alicia Drive Bethel Park Pennsylvania 15102Dialysis Stations: 4 (412) 833-2612
- Fresenius Kidney Care - South Hills9.37 miles away4651 Library Road Bethel Park Pennsylvania 15102Dialysis Stations: 18 (412) 835-1229
- Davita - Jefferson Dialysis11.42 miles away14 Clairton Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15236Dialysis Stations: 17 (412) 653-6007