Williamsport Retirement Village

We awarded this facility one of our better scores in our long-term care category, where it received a B+. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 96.056335 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also was awarded a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on our last category of inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst grade and it really hurt its overall grade. Our inspection grade is based on the facility's inspection reports. Since the data is collected by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. Inspection scores weigh many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received a substantiated complaint in the last few years. There seem to be no shortage of reasons to pass on this facility.