William Penn Care Center

William Penn Care Center is a large nursing home in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall grade of F. This facility is about as bad as it gets. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.

Although this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually fared well in our short-term care rating. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better grades. This is one of the only positive things we could find to say about this facility. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 43.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home rather than remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility performed well in inspections also. We gave it a grade of B- for that category, which is a fairly impressive score. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility received 12 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home also didn't perform terribly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is another one its better scores. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a relatively low figure. Nevertheless, more than a quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing care, which we weight more in our nursing ratings. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. While this facility didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many of the other nursing homes we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses and safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.3262 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place fared much worse with 3.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is more than double the national average.