St Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare
1412 Lansdowne Avenue, Darby PA 19023 · (610) 461-6510 · 72.93% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
St Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare is a very-large nursing home located in Darby, Pennsylvania. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade in this range indicates we found some red flags. This isn't the worse place we graded, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 273 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we were down on this facility overall, we awarded it a B+ for our nursing rating. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, averaging 4 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, this place also fared even better in most of the quality measures we looked at. It had a low rate of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Shockingly, this facility actually received a good grade in the area of inspections as well. We awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Not many facilities that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best area was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of C. With our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the sheer volume of services offered by a nursing home, along with a series of quality measures. This facility's vaccination data weren't as favorable as its nursing hours data. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 82.0442 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was more favorable.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed is short-term care. This facility received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that category. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the staffing figures we considered. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 29.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Francis Center for Rehabilitation & Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are often the result of lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients who sustained 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 caused by worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this statistic could be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
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 demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better