Transitions Healthcare Gettysburg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.