William Penn Care Center

On top of having a decent overall score, we also would like to point out that this nursing home received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with a B+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing category includes several components, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

This facilities third most favorable category is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 3.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's worst category. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is certainly very disappointing. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.338715 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.