Transitions Healthcare Gettysburg
595 Biglerville Road, Gettysburg PA 17325 · (717) 334-6249 · 92.37% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Transitions Healthcare Gettysburg is a senior living facility located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a city with 27,619 people. With an overall score of D, this is a subpar nursing home. Based on our ratings, this nursing home may not be the best fit for most prospective residents. The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 135 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B+ for our inspections category. This score is much better than the facility's overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an C. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 43.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, we gave this facility a D in long-term care. This is the nursing home's worst category rating. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 89.906105 percent of its patients. This is significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Transitions Healthcare Gettysburg Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better