Willows of Presbyterian Senior

With an address in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, Willows of Presbyterian Senior is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. This is a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. You can certainly do much worse than this facility. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we awarded it a grade of A. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the national average. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In our short-term care score, we try to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This place provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most facilities we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in the country with 55.2 percent of its residents able to return home.

Switching gears to our final area, this facility received a respectable long-term care rating. Even though this wasn't nearly as elite as several of its other category grades, this is still not a terrible score. With our long-term care grade, we weigh the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a few qualitative metrics. In addition to considering the high level of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's record for vaccinations. By way of example, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 96.464645 percent of its residents, which is an impressive total. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.