Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center's website

1896 Leithsville Road,
Hellertown PA 18055

(610) 838-7901

59.09% estimated occupancy ¹

Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is a small nursing home located in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the country. We can't find many bad things to say about this place. Its ratings are as good as they get. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile was its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

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

Facility Inspections

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Nurse Quality

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

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Long-term Care Quality

In addition, this facility also received favorable long-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B+. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.96907 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

The next category we scored is short-term care. In this area, we awarded this facility a favorable grade of B. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. It doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. More supervision reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of long-term residents which had a UTI. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to facilities having reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 3.12% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents exhibiting depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 88.22% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 14.84% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 21.64% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 8.92 Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Weston Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, 72.59% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

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St Luke's Quakertown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.61 miles away1021 Park Avenue Quakertown Pennsylvania 18951Voluntary non-profit - Private(215) 538-4500
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Easton HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.19 miles away250 South 21st Street Easton Pennsylvania 18042Proprietary(610) 250-4076
St Luke's Warren HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13 miles away185 Roseberry St Phillipsburg New Jersey 08865Voluntary non-profit - Other(908) 847-6700
Grand View HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.85 miles away700 Lawn Avenue Sellersville Pennsylvania 18960Voluntary non-profit - Other(215) 453-4615

Nearby Dialysis

Bio-Medical Applications of Pennsylvania, Inc2.88 miles away1005 Harvard Avenue Bethlehem Pennsylvania 18015Dialysis Stations: 17 (610) 997-8350
Davita - St. Luke's Bethlehem5.63 miles away1425 8th Avenue Bethlehem Pennsylvania 18018CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (484) 403-4304
Fresenius Kidney Care - South Allentown7.29 miles away2820 Mitchell Avenue Allentown Pennsylvania 18103Dialysis Stations: 16 (610) 797-7655
Fresenius Kidney Care - Fogelsville7.63 miles away7310 Tilghman Street, Suite 100 Allentown Pennsylvania 18106Dialysis Stations: 13 (610) 395-1980
Fresenius Kidney Care - Bethlehem7.68 miles away2014 City Line Road, Suite 102 Bethlehem Pennsylvania 18017CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (610) 264-9660
Davita - St. Luke's Allentown Dialysis8.49 miles away1901 Hamilton St., Suite 100 Allentown Pennsylvania 18104Dialysis Stations: 4 (610) 435-2590
Etowah Dialysis, LLC8.49 miles away1901 Hamilton St., Suite 200 Allentown Pennsylvania 18104Dialysis Stations: 4 (610) 776-1479
Davita - St. Luke's Quakertown Dialysis8.56 miles away1021 Park Avenue Quakertown Pennsylvania 18951Dialysis Stations: 12 (215) 536-8184