Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Weatherwood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is located in Weatherly, Pennsylvania. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Weatherly. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its long-term care grade, which is actually one of its better category grades. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 92.45562 percent of its patients. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing rating considers a variety of datapoints. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in two of the major areas we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we scored was short-term care. This facility received a rock bottom grade of F in this category. Our short-term care grades are important for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its weak grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place offers far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The last measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 26.8 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.