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Pathways, the skilled nursing and rehabilitation center at The Philadelphia Protestant Home, was recently awarded a 5-Star rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The 5-Star rating is calculated using annual Health Inspection scores, Quality Measures, and Staffing Levels. Only 10% of all nursing homes in the country have achieved this level of care.
Providing the best possible care has been the foundation on which we have built our 119-year reputation. This award confirms what we have known for years: that our PPh caregivers are the very best at what they do! Please join us in congratulating our staff on this remarkable achievement!
From the CMS website:
"The Five Star Quality Rating System was created to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily and help identifyareas about which you may want to ask questions. This rating system is based on continued efforts as a result of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA '87), a nursing home reform law, and more recent quality improvement campaigns such as the Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes, a coalition of consumers, healthcare providers, and nursing home professionals.
Nursing home ratings are taken from the following three sources of data: Health Inspections, Staffing, and Quality Measures. We provide a star rating for each of these three sources, in case some areas are more important to you than others. Then, these three ratings are combined to calculate an overall rating.
Why is this important?
Nursing homes vary in the quality of care and services they provide to their residents. Reviewing health inspection results, staffing data, and quality measure data are three important ways to measure nursing home quality. This information gives you a "snap shot" of the care individual nursing homes give."
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