Upmc Mckeesport Long Term Care

In addition to receiving an elite overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's third strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In our final category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. This topped off a very impressive report card. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.