St Barnabas Nursing Home is a facility in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, a city with 27,049 people. Featuring an overall score of A-, this facility is one of the higher-rated facilities we assessed. Based on our analysis, you can not go wrong here. Scroll down to find this facility's category scores, which are also strong. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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St Barnabas Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this critical category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem 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 an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its strong resume, this nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score, with a score of A. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care grades this year. In fact, we gave them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.55173 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
The final area we rated is nursing, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. While this ended up being its lowest category grade, this is nevertheless an above average rating. The nursing score features numerous factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Barnabas Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 9.74% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 1.15% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 1.76% of Patients had UTIs
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents which sustained a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 8.16% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 21.31% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 1.2% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression. Some believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 94.39% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 15.65% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 23.85% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 23.85% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 0% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Barnabas Nursing Home, 67.32% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Upmc PassavantAcute Care Hospitals 6.67 miles away9100 Babcock Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 367-6700
- Allegheny Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.87 miles away1301 Carlisle St Natrona Heights Pennsylvania 15065Voluntary non-profit - Other(412) 224-5100
- Upmc St MargaretAcute Care Hospitals 12 miles away815 Freeport Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15215Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 784-4000
- West Penn HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.32 miles away4800 Friendship Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15224Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 578-5000
- Heritage Valley SewickleyAcute Care Hospitals 13.82 miles away720 Blackburn Road Sewickley Pennsylvania 15143Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 741-7000
- Allegheny General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.95 miles away320 East North Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 359-3131
- Ohio Valley General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.46 miles away25 Heckel Road Mc Kees Rocks Pennsylvania 15136Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 777-6161
- Upmc Presbyterian ShadysideAcute Care Hospitals 14.74 miles away200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213Voluntary non-profit - Private(412) 647-8788
Nearby Dialysis
- Dci of Seven Fields5.69 miles away201 Highpointe Drive Mars Pennsylvania 16046Dialysis Stations: 19 (724) 779-3930
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cranberry7.44 miles away5 Saint Francis Way Cranberry Twp Pennsylvania 16066Dialysis Stations: 7 (724) 779-9770
- Dci of North Hills8.69 miles away3412 Babcock Boulevard Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (412) 635-0211
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Shaler9.95 miles away880 Butler Street Shaler Plaza Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15223Dialysis Stations: 16 (412) 782-3790
- Davita Avonworth Dialysis10.04 miles away259 Mt. Nebo Pointe Road Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15237Dialysis Stations: 9 (412) 364-3238
- Dci Renal Services of Pittsburgh, LLC - Harmar Village10.67 miles away725 Freeport Road Cheswick Pennsylvania 15024Dialysis Stations: 14 (412) 823-5422
- Davita - Harmarville Dialysis10.74 miles away791 Freeport Road Cheswick Pennsylvania 15024Dialysis Stations: 13 (724) 274-9281
- Total Renal Care, Inc.11.81 miles away1 Kensington Square B New Kensington Pennsylvania 15068Dialysis Stations: 8 (724) 335-2876