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Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center's website

1000 Evergreen Avenue,
Weatherly PA 18255

(570) 427-8683

88.35% estimated occupancy 1

Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility in Weatherly, Pennsylvania. This city has 4,337 people. Our scoring system was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to steer clear of this place. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this facility earned a decent grade in the area of long-term care. You can find more information about this category below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: C

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you this facility avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score and that actually turned out to be its next highest score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.15953 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. In calculating our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The next category we rated is short-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this area, which is an abysmal score. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its residents returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 4.37% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 3.99% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who sustained falls which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 1.06% of Patients had UTIs

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who had a urinary tract infection. While more infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 12.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 16.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 97.5% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 16.03% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 22.5% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 22.5% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 12.57% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 67.05% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonAcute Care Hospitals 7.71 miles away700 East Broad Street Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Government - Local(570) 501-4000
  • St Luke's Hospital-Gnaden Huetten CampusAcute Care Hospitals 8.56 miles away211 North 12th Street Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235Voluntary non-profit - Private(607) 377-1300
  • St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.63 miles away360 W Ruddle Street Coaldale Pennsylvania 18218Voluntary non-profit - Private(570) 645-2131
  • Palmerton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.89 miles away135 Lafayette Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Voluntary non-profit - Other(610) 826-3141

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Hazleton8.34 miles away110 Butler Drive Hazleton Pennsylvania 18201Dialysis Stations: 12 (570) 454-3558
  • Fresenius Kidney Care - Carbon County8.86 miles away168 S. Sargent Stanley Hoffman Boulevard Lehighton Pennsylvania 18235CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 379-0330
  • The Kidney Center of Greater Hazleton10.19 miles away426 Airport Road 2 Beltway Commons Hazleton Pennsylvania 18202Dialysis Stations: 21 (570) 450-0870
  • Etowah Dialysis LLC11.79 miles away1215 East Broad Street Tamaqua Pennsylvania 18252Dialysis Stations: 8 (570) 668-3480
  • Palmerton Dialysis Center14.01 miles away185-C Delaware Avenue Palmerton Pennsylvania 18071Dialysis Stations: 10 (610) 826-5929

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=395464