Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, a city with a population of 20,131 people. Featuring an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end facility. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in West Mifflin. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
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Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Hemodialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Catheter Care
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Short-term Care Quality
We were not high on this facility's overall score or its category grades. We gave it a D for our short-term care score and that proved be its highest grade. With our short-term care grade, we try to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection grade where it received an F. This typically means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. For facilities with poor inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years in excess of $50,000. This generally signifies that government inspectors became fed up after several years of bad inspections.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. The nursing grade weighs a handful of datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at was long-term care. It received an F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 77.5641 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit below average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 10.77% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that had a fall which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 2.64% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care patients which sustained a UTI. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare between facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 15.73% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many conditions, such as dementia. Sadly, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 17.23% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 3.37% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 78.78% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 31.64% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate decline of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 32.52% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 32.52% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 12.57% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Southwestern Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 73.17% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Jefferson HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.72 miles away565 Coal Valley Road Clairton Pennsylvania 15025Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 469-5000
- Upmc MckeesportAcute Care Hospitals 4.88 miles away1500 Fifth Avenue Mckeesport Pennsylvania 15132Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 664-2000
- St Clair HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.49 miles away1000 Bower Hill Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15243Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 942-4000
- Magee Womens Hospital of Upmc Health SystemAcute Care Hospitals 7.52 miles away300 Halket Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213Voluntary non-profit - Other(412) 641-4010
- Upmc MercyAcute Care Hospitals 7.81 miles away1400 Locust Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15219Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 232-8111
- Upmc Presbyterian ShadysideAcute Care Hospitals 7.85 miles away200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 647-8788
- West Penn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.21 miles away4800 Friendship Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15224Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 578-5000
- Allegheny General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.38 miles away320 East North Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 359-3131
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Jefferson Dialysis1.74 miles away14 Clairton Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15236Dialysis Stations: 17 (412) 653-6007
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- Fresenius Kidney Care - South Hills4.66 miles away4651 Library Road Bethel Park Pennsylvania 15102Dialysis Stations: 18 (412) 835-1229
- Davita - Elizabeth Dialysis4.76 miles away201 Mckeesport Road Elizabeth Pennsylvania 15037Dialysis Stations: 12 (412) 384-1822
- Davita - Homestead Dialysis5.41 miles away207 West 7th Avenue Homestead Pennsylvania 15120CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (412) 476-8700
- Davita - Bethel Park5.75 miles away6000 Alicia Drive Bethel Park Pennsylvania 15102Dialysis Stations: 4 (412) 833-2612
- Dci Renal Services of Pittsburgh, LLC - North Versailles6.43 miles away613 East Pittsburgh Mckeesport Boulevard North Versailles Pennsylvania 15137Dialysis Stations: 19 (412) 675-0960
- Davita - Mckeesport Dialysis6.73 miles awayOak Park Mall 2001 Lincoln Way Mckeesport Pennsylvania 15131CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (412) 678-0183